• After completing the course students will be better equipped to understand the key concepts in political theory and various related conceptual categories.

• They will also be in a better position to engage in application of concepts and understand the limitations.

• It will also help in developing critical thinking regarding the functioning of the political system in relation to the context the students are situated in.
• The foundation for understanding the contemporary political developments would also be laid down by the course.

Unit I: Understanding Political Theory

a. What is Politics?

b. What is Political Theory?

c. Relevance of political theory

Unit II: Approaches and Contemporary Perspectives on Political Theory

a. Liberal

b. Marxist

c. Feminist

Unit III: Concepts in Political Theory

a. State

b. Rights

c. Liberty

d. Equality

e. Justice

Unit IV: Understanding Democracy

a. Concept of Democracy

b. Types of democracy

c. Critique of democracy

COURSE OUTCOME

Unit No and Name

• Students will develop an understanding of the legacy of national movement and the principles that shaped the formation and functioning of the Constituent Assembly of India.

• It will help in developing critical thinking about role of ideas and norms in shaping democracy in India. It will make them understand what is constitution and how has the working of contributed to the consolidation of democracy in India.
• Students will be able to make sense of the institutional design, challenges and resilience marking key public institutions in India.
• The students will develop basic understanding on the constitutional provisions related to the legislative procedures in Indian Parliament. It will enhance their understanding related to the procedures, practices related to the passage of a bill from drafting to its passage by the Parliament.
• It will help students in developing a nuanced understanding of the importance of states in Indian politics and how the changing character of federalism in India made states the key player.

Unit-I: Indian Constitution: Emergence and Distinctiveness

a. Constituent Assembly: Historical Backdrop and Formation

b. Basic Features of Indian Constitution

c. Amendment of Constitution: Nature and Procedure

Unit-II: Citizenship and Rights

a. Citizenship: Meaning and Provisions in the Constitution

b. Fundamental Rights and Fundamental Duties

c. Directive Principles of State Policy

Unit-III: Institutions

a. The Executive: President, Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers, Bureaucracy in

India

b. The Parliament: Composition, Legislative Procedure in Parliament, Question of Decline

c. The Judiciary: The Supreme Court, Appointment of Judges, Independence, Judicial

Activism

Unit-IV: Federalism and Local Government

a. Nature of Federal System: Constitutional Provisions, Distinctive Features, NITI Ayog and

Changing Character

b. Integration of Princely States in India,Union and Its Territory

c. Panchayati Raj Institutions in India: Emergence, Composition, Powers and Functions, Actual Working

COURSE OUTCOME

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This course will enable the students to:

• To understand idea of political theory and its relevance.
• To enable the students to assess the contemporary trends of political theory – feminism and postmodernism
• To reconcile theory and practice in relation to democracy 

UNIT 1: What is Political Theory and its relevance, Feminism, Post-modernism.

UNIT 2: Grammar of Democracy: Procedural and Participative democracy

COURSE OUTCOME

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This course will enable the students to:

• To acquaint students with constitutional design of state structures and institutions.
• To understand the conflicts in constitutional provisions
• To make them comprehend the state institutions in relation to extra constitutional environment.

Unit1: The Constituent Assembly and the Constitution

Unit 2: Organs of Government

Unit 3: Federalism and Decentralization

Course Outcome

Unit No. and Name

This course will enable the students to:

• To understand the various concepts in political theory and appreciate how they can be helpful to analyse crucial political issues.
• To understand the significance of debates in political theory in exploring multiple perspective to concepts, ideas and issues.
• To appreciate how these concepts and debates enrich political life and issues surrounding it.

UNIT 1: Importance of Freedom: Positive & Negative

UNIT-2: Significance of Equality: Political equality 

 UNIT 3: Indispensability of Justice: Procedural & Distributive

Course Outcome

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This course will enable the students to:

• To understand the working of major political institutions in India
• To understand the major debates in Indian politics
• To examine issues of caste, gender, region and religion
• To understand the changing nature of the Indian state
• To evaluate the contradictory dynamics of modern state power

UNIT 1: Political Parties and the Party System

UNIT 2: Determinants of Voting Behaviour

 UNIT 3: Politics of secession and Accommodation

UNIT: IV Religion and Politics

 UNIT: V Caste and Politics

UNIT: VI Affirmative Action Policies UNIT:

 VII The Changing Nature of the Indian State

Course Outcome

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This course will enable the students to:

• To understand the basic concepts in comparative politics
• To classify the different political systems and historical context of modern governments
• To enable comparative analysis of countries related to their political institutions and behaviour

Unit1: Understanding Comparative Politics

UNIT 2: Historical context of modern government

UNIT 3: Themes for comparative

Course Outcome

Unit No. and Name

This course will enable the students to:

• To enable students to learn the basic  concepts related to public administration and its importance
• To make students learn the major theories of public administration,
• To enable students to have an understanding of public policy and its formulation,
• To familiarize students with the major approaches and recent debates related to field of public administration.

Unit 1: Public administration as a discipline

 Unit 2: Theoretical Perspectives: Classical & Neo-classical theories,

Unit 3: Public policy

Unit 4: Major approaches in public administration

Course Outcome

Unit No. and Name

This course will enable the students to:

• To make students understand the key theoretical approaches in International relations, 
• To familiarize students with the evolution of International state systems and its importance.
•  To make students aware of the key theoretical debates in International relations 
• To enable students to have an overall understanding of International relations in relation to twentieth century IR history.  

UNIT 1: Studying International Relation

Unit 2: Theoretical Perspectives

Unit 3: An Overview of Twentieth Century IR History

Course Outcome

Unit No. and Name

• To understand, comprehend and analyse the complex nature and functioning of the political systems, political institutions and corresponding issues to these both in a country specific case of India and cross-country perspectives.

• To demonstrate critical thinking about key issues of political system of different forms, political process and public policy.

• To use the contents and sub-units of the course as yardsticks for comparing these political systems and processes.

UNIT 1: Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics

UNIT 2: Electoral System

UNIT 3: Party System

 UNIT 4: Nation-state

 UNIT 5: Democratization

UNIT 6: Federalism

Course Outcome

Unit No. and Name

This course will enable the students to:

• To be familiarized with and gain knowledge about the processes of public policy making in India and their significance in administering the state

• To develop the ability to assess the functioning of the government and the administration in ensuring a citizen centric welfare administration in India.

Unit1: Public Policy

UNIT 2: Decentralization

UNIT 3: Budget

UNIT 4: Citizen and Administration Interface

UNIT 5: Social Welfare Administration

Course Outcome

Unit No. and Name

This course will enable the students to:

• To understand the wide range of important global political and economic policy problems
•   To have knowledge of the essential theoretical assumptions underlying globalisation’s conceptual frameworks
• To understand issues of globalisation that decides the international relations- political, economic and security relations- among the nations.

Unit1: Globalization: Conceptions and Perspectives

 Unit 2: Contemporary Global Issues

  UNIT 3: Global Shifts: Power and Governance

Course Outcome

Unit No. and Name

The completion of the course will enable the students to:

• To interpret ideas underlying traditions in classical political philosophy
•  To analyze the debates and arguments of leading political philosophers belonging to different traditions of the period.
•  To appraise the relevance of classical political philo-sophy in understanding in contemporary politics

UNIT 1: Text and Interpretation: Marxist Feminist, & Post-modernist

 UNIT 2: Plato and his political philosophy

  UNIT 3: Aristotle and his political philosophy

  UNIT 4: Machiavelli and his political philosophy

UNIT 5: Hobbes and his political philosophy

  UNIT 6: John Locke and his political philosophy

Course Outcome

Unit No. and Name

This course will enable the students to: 

• To underline themes and issues in political traditions of pre-colonial India.
•  To compare and contrast positions of different political traditions those were present in pre-colonial India.
•   To evaluate the relevance of political thought of pre-colonial India in contemporary politics.

Unit 1: Traditions of Precolonial Indian Political Thought

 Unit 2: Ved Vyasa (Shantiparva): Rajadharma

  Unit 3: Manu: Social Laws

 Unit 4: Kautilya: Theory of State

 Unit 5: Aggannasutta (Digha Nikaya): Theory of kingship

 Unit 6: Barani: Ideal Polity Remember,

 Unit 7: Abul Fazal: Monarchy

Unit 8: Kabir: Syncretism

Course Outcome

Unit No. and Name

This course will enable the students to:

• To interpret ideas underlying traditions in classical political philosophy
•   To analyze the debates and arguments of leading political philosophers belonging to different traditions of the period
•  To appraise the relevance of classical political philosophy in understanding contemporary politics

Unit 1: Introduction to Human Rights

 Unit 2: Approaches and perspectives

 Unit 3: Human Rights and UNO

 Unit 4: Human rights and the role of NGOs

Course Outcome

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This course will enable the students to:

• To understand the importance of constitutions. ii) To introduce various types of constitutions different parts of the world.
•  To know the various forms of governments from different parts of the world.

Unit 1: United Kingdom: The British Political Tradition Parliamentary Government

 Unit 2: United States of America: Making of the American Constitution, The Federal System National Government

Course Outcome

Unit No. and Name

This course will enable the students to:

• To interpret ideas underlying traditions in modern political philosophy.
•  To analyze the debates and arguments of leading political philosophers of different philosophical traditions

•  To appraise the relevance of modern political philosophy in understanding contemporary politics

UNIT 1: Modernity and its discourses

 UNIT 2: Romantics: J. J. Rousseau & Mary Wollstonecraft his political philosophy

 UNIT 3: Liberal socialist: J. S. Mill & his political philosophy

UNIT 4: Radicals: Karl Marx & Alexandra Kollontai and their ideas

Course Outcome

Unit No. and Name

This course will enable the students to:

• To underline themes and issues in political thought of modern India
•  To compare and contrast positions of leading political thinkers in India on issues those are constitutive of modern India.
•  To assess the relevance of political thought of modern India in understanding contemporary politics

Unit 1: Introduction to Modern Indian Political Thought

 Unit 2: Rammohan Roy: Rights

Unit 3: Pandita Ramabai: Gender

 Unit 4: Vivekananda: Ideal Society

 Unit 5: Gandhi: Swaraj

 Unit 6: Ambedkar: Social Justice

 Unit 7: Tagore: Critique of Nationalism

Unit 8: Iqbal: Community

 Unit 9: Savarkar: Hindutva

 Unit 10: Nehru: Secularism Remember,

Unit 11: Lohia: Socialism Remember,

Course Outcome

Unit No. and Name

This course will enable the students to:

• To understand the origin and development of human rights.
•   To know the measure adopted for the protection of human rights in India.
•  To familiarize emerging issues of human rights

Unit 1: Origin and development of human rights in India

 Unit2: Institutional mechanism for the protection of human rights

Unit 3: Emerging Issues of human rights

 Unit 4: Human Rights of vulnerable groups R

Course Outcome

Unit No. and Name

This course will enable the students to:

• To understand the importance of constitution.
•  To introduce various types of constitutions of different parts of the world.
• To know the various forms of governments from different parts of the world

Unit 1: Peoples Republic of China: Revolutionary Legacy

 Unit2: Peoples Republic of China: Rights and Duties of Citizens

Unit 3: Switzerland: Political Traditions, Federalism

 Unit 4: Switzerland: Direct Democracy

Course Outcome

Unit No. and Name

• To introduce the key concepts in political theory
• To make students understand the aspects of conceptual analysis
• To engage in application of concepts and limitations

Theorizing Political

a. What is Politics?

b. What is Political Theory and what is its relevance?

Concepts: Democracy, Rights, Gender, Citizenship and Civil Society

Debates in Political Theory: (13 lectures)

a. Is democracy compatible with economic growth?

b. On what grounds is censorship justified and what are its limits?

c. Does protective discrimination violate principles of fairness?

d. Should the State intervene in the institution of the family?

Course Outcome

Unit No. and Name

● Appreciate the approaches to the study of Indian politics and the changing nature of the state

● Understand the basic features of the Indian constitution and its institutional functioning

● Examine the changing role of caste, class and patriarchy and their impact on politics

● Understand the dynamics of social movements in India.

Unit 1. Approaches to the Study of Indian Politics and Nature of the State in India: Liberal, Marxist and Gandhian 

Unit 2. Indian Constitution: basic features, debates on Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles (9 lectures)

Unit 3. Institutional Functioning: Prime Minister, Parliament and Judiciary (9 lectures)

Unit 4. Power Structure in India: Caste, class and patriarchy (7 lectures)

Unit 5. Religion and Politics: debates on secularism and communalism (6 lectures)

Unit 6. Parties and Party systems in India (5 lectures)

Unit 7. Social Movements : Workers and Peasants (10 lectures)

Unit 8.Strategies of Development in India since Independence: Planned Economy and Neo-liberalism (5 lectures)

Course Outcome

Unit No. and Name

To make students have a basic understanding of comparative political analysis,

• To make students learn the classification of political systems from a comparative politics framework.

• To make students learn the classification of governments and the political behavior of institutions and the changes in the nature of the nation-state

Unit 1.The nature, scope and methods of comparative political analysis

Unit 2. Comparing Regimes: Authoritarian and Democratic

Unit 3. Classifications of political systems:

a. Parliamentary and Presidential: UK and USA

b. Federal and Unitary: Canada and China

Unit 4. Electoral Systems: First past the post and proportional representation

Unit 5. Party Systems: one-party, two-party and multi-party systems.

Unit 6. Contemporary debates on the nature of state: 

a. Human Security

b. Changing nature of nation-state in the context of globalization

Course Outcome

Unit No. and Name

● To demonstrate basic understanding of scientific methods of inquiry in international relations.

● To understand how international relations influence societies.

● To demonstrate a basic understanding of the foundational theories and concepts in international relations.

● To analyse the current world events and their implications on the Indian Foreign policy decision making process by applying prominent theories of international relations and generate substantial research question on the topics

1. Approaches to International Relations (27 lectures)

a. Classical Realism (Hans Morgenthau) and Neo-Realism (Kenneth Waltz)

b. Neo-Liberalism: Complex Interdependence (Robert O. Keohane and Joseph Nye)

c. Structural Approach: Dependency School (Andre Gunder Frank)

d. Feminist Perspective (J. Ann Tickner)

2. Cold War & Post-Cold War Era (20 lectures)

a. Second World War & Origins of Cold War

b. Phases of Cold War:

● First Cold War

 Rise and Fall of Detente

• Second Cold War

• End of Cold War and Collapse of the Soviet Union

c. Post Cold- War Era and Emerging Centres of Power (European Union, China, Russia and Japan)

3. India’s Foreign Policy (13 lectures)

a. Basic Determinants (Historical, Geo-Political, Economic, Domestic and Strategic)

b. India’s Policy of Non-alignment

c. India: An Emerging Power

Course Outcome

Unit No. and Name

• Students will be able to understand the importance of constitutions;
• This paper is an integral part of public services examinations.
• Students will be introduced to the various types of constitutions and the forms of governments from different parts of the world.

Unit I: Constitution and Constitutionalism (15 lectures)

• Constitution - Meaning and Importance
• Constitutionalism – Concept

Unit 2: United Kingdom (15 lectures)

• The British Political Tradition
• Parliamentary Government

i. Monarchy

ii. Cabinet

iii. Parliament

• Rule of Law and the Judicial System

Unit 3: United States of America (15 lectures)

• Making of the American Constitution
• The Federal System
• National Government—

i. The President

ii. Congress

iii. Supreme Court

Unit 4: Comparative Study of UK and US Constitutions (15 lectures)

• British Prime Minister vs US President
• House of Lords vs Senate

Course Outcome

Unit No. and Name

• Students will be able to understand the basics of public administration;

• This paper is an integral part of public services examinations. Students will be well versed with ideas of administration.

UNIT 1: Introduction

• Concept, Nature and Importance of Public Administration
• Growth and Evolution of Public Administration as a Discipline
• Interaction between Public and Private Administration

UNIT 2: Administrative Theories

• Scientific Management Theory
• Bureaucratic Theory

UNIT 3: Principles of Organization

• Hierarchy -- Span of control
• Centralization – Decentralization
• Ethics and Values in Public Administration

UNIT 4: Structure of Organization

• Line and Staff
• Chief executive – Types and Role
• Department- Public Corporations