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PSIR Complete Syllabus

Paper 1: Section A

  1. Political Theory:
  2. Meaning
  3. Approaches.
  4. Theories of state:
  5. Liberal
  6. Neo-liberal
  7. Marxist
  8. Pluralist
  9. Post-colonial
  10. Feminist.
  11. Justice:
  12. Conceptions of justice
  13. Rawal’s theory of justice and its communitarian critiques.
  14. Equality:
  15. Social
  16. political
  17. economic
  18. The relationship between equality and freedom
  19. Affirmative action.
  20. Rights:
  21. Meaning
  22. Theories
  23. Different kinds of rights
  24. Concept of Human Rights.
  25. Democracy:
  26. Classical theories
  27. Contemporary theories
  28. Different models of democracy—representative, participatory and deliberative.
  29. Concept of power:
  30. Hegemony
  31. Ideology
  32. Legitimacy.
  33. Political Ideologies:
  34. Liberalism
  35. Socialism
  36. Marxism
  37. Fascism
  38. Gandhism
  39. Feminism.
  40. Indian Political Thought:
  41. Dharma shastra
  42. Arthashastra
  43. Buddhist Traditions
  44. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
  45. Sri Aurobindo
  46. M. K. Gandhi
  47. B. R. Ambedkar
  48. M. N. Roy.
  49. Western Political Thought:
  50. Plato
  51. Aristotle
  52. Machiavelli
  53. Hobbes
  54. Locke
  55. John S. Mill
  56. Marx
  57. Gramsci
  58. Hannah Arendt.

Paper 1: Section B:

Syllabus: Indian Government & Politics:

1 (a) Political Strategies of India’s Freedom Struggle

  1. Constitutionalism to mass Satyagraha
  2. Non-cooperation
  3. Civil Disobedience
  4. Militant and Revolutionary Movements
  5. Peasant and Workers Movements

1 (b) Perspectives on Indian National Movement

  1. Liberal
  2. Socialist
  3. Marxist
  4. Radical
  5. Humanist
  6.  

2.Making of the Indian Constitution:

  1. Legacies of the British rule
  2. Different social and political perspectives. 
  3. Salient Features of the Indian Constitution:
  4. The Preamble
  5. Fundamental Rights
  6. Fundamental Duties
  7. Directive Principles
  8. Parliamentary System
  9. Amendment Procedures
  10. Judicial Review
  11. Basic Structure doctrine.
  12. Organs of Government:
  13. Principal Organs of the Union Government: Envisaged role and actual working of the Executive, Legislature, and Supreme Court.
  14. Principal Organs of the State Government: Envisaged role and actual working of the Executive, Legislature, and High Courts. 
  15. Grassroots Democracy:
  16. Panchayati Raj and Municipal Government
  17. Significance of 73rd and 74th Amendments
  18. Grassroot movements.
  19. Statutory Institutions / Commissions:
  20. Election Commission
  21. Comptroller and Auditor General
  22. Finance Commission
  23. Union Public Service Commission
  24. National Commission for Scheduled Castes
  25. National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
  26. National Commission for Women
  27. National Human Rights Commission
  28. National Commission for Minorities
  29. National Backward Classes Commission.
  30. Federalism:
  31. Constitutional provisions
  32. Changing nature of center-state relations
  33. Integrationist tendencies and regional aspirations
  34. Inter-state disputes.

8.Planning and Economic Development:

  1. Nehruvian and Gandhian perspectives
  2. Role of planning and public sector
  3. Green Revolution
  4. Land reforms
  5. Agrarian relations
  6. Liberalization and economic reforms.
  7. Social politics:
  8. Caste
  9. Religion
  10. Ethnicity in Indian Politics.
  11. Party System:
  12. National and regional political parties
  13. Ideological and social bases of parties
  14. Patterns of coalition politics
  15. Pressure groups
  16. Trends in electoral behavior
  17. Changing socio-economic profile of Legislators. 
  18. Social Movements:
  19. Civil liberties and human rights movements
  20. Women’s movements
  21. Environmentalist movements.

Syllabus: Comparative Political Analysis and International Politics:

 

Paper 2: Section A:

  1. Comparative Politics:
  2. Nature and major approaches
  3. Political economy and political sociology perspectives
  4. Limitations of the comparative method.
  5. State in Comparative Perspective: Characteristics and changing nature of the State in –
  6. Capitalist economies
  7. Socialist economies
  8. Advanced industrial societies
  9. Developing societies.
  10. Politics of Representation and Participation in advanced industrial and developing societies
  11. Political parties
  12. Pressure groups
  13. Social movements
  14. Globalisation:

Responses from developed and developing societies.

  1. Approaches to the Study of International Relations:
  2. Idealist theory
  3. Realist theory
  4. Marxist theory
  5. Functionalist theory
  6. Systems theory.
  7. Key Concepts in International Relations:
  8. National interest
  9. National security
  10. Power
  11. Balance of power
  12. Deterrence
  13. Transactional actors and collective security
  14. World capitalist economy and globalisation.
  15. Changing International Political Order:
  16. Rise of superpowers
  17. Strategic and ideological Bipolarity
  18. arms race and cold war
  19. Nuclear threat;
  20. Non-aligned movement: Aims and achievements.
  21. Collapse of the Soviet Union
  22. Unipolarity and American hegemony
  23. Relevance of non-alignment in the contemporary world. 
  24. Evolution of the International Economic System:
  25. From Bretton woods to WTO
  26. Socialist economies
  27. CMEA (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)
  28. Third World demand for new international economic order
  29. Globalisation of the world economy.
  30. United Nations:
  31. Envisaged role and actual record
  32. Specialized UN agencies—aims and functioning
  33. The need for UN reforms.
  34. Regionalisation of World Politics:
  35. EU
  36. ASEAN
  37. APEC
  38. SAARC
  39.  
  40. Contemporary Global Concerns:
  41. Democracy
  42. Human rights
  43. Environment
  44. Gender justice
  45. Terrorism
  46. Nuclear proliferation.

Syllabus: India & World:

 

Paper 2: Section B:

  1. Indian Foreign Policy:
  2. Determinants of foreign policy
  3. The institutions of policy-making
  4. Continuity and change. 
  5. India’s Contribution to the Non-Alignment Movement
  6. Different phases

current role. 

  1. India and South Asia:
  2. Regional Co-operation: SAARC-past performance and future prospects.
  3. South Asia as a Free Trade Area.
    India’s “Look East” policy.
  4. Impediments to regional co-operation: River water disputes; illegal cross-border migration;
  5. Ethnic conflicts and insurgencies; Border disputes.
  6. India and the Global South:
  7. Relations with Africa and Latin America
  8. Leadership role in the demand for NIEO
  9. WTO negotiations. 
  10. India and the Global Centres of Power:
  11. USA
  12. EU
  13. Japan
  14. China
  15.  
  16. India and the UN System:
  17. Role in UN Peace-keeping
  18. Demand for Permanent Seat in the Security Council.
  19. India and the Nuclear Question:
  20. Changing perceptions
  21.  
  22. Recent developments in Indian Foreign Policy: India’s position on the recent crises in –
  23. Afghanistan
  24. Iraq
  25. West Asia
  26. Growing relations with US and Israel
  27. Vision of a new world order.

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