State Politics in India

Paper Code: 
POL 424-B
Credits: 
04
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

The focus of this paper is on the political processes and the actual functioning of the political system in India in the framework for a modern, secular and democratic society and simultaneously discussing the working of select political institutions like the Union Executive, the Parliament and the Judiciary

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Unit I: 
UNIT 1

Framework of the study of State Politics, Determinants of the State Politics; Salient features of State Politics; Nature of Indian states

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Unit II: 
UNIT 2

Evolution of State in British India, Demand for redistribution of State, State reorganization in 1956

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Unit III: 
UNIT 3

Case of Linguistic states, Case of smaller states, Regionalism, Demand for separate statehood

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Unit IV: 
UNIT 4

State Executive- The Governor, Chief Minister, State Legislature

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Unit V: 
UNIT 5

Emerging trends in state politics, Panchayati Raj System and its impact on state politics

Essential Readings: 
  • Iqbal Narayan (ed.) State Politics in India, Meenakshi Meerut, Meerut, 1967
  • M. Weiner (ed.) State Politics in India, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1976
  • B.L. Fadia, State Politics in India (2 Vol.), Radiant, Delhi, 1984
  • S.R. Maheshwari, State Governments in India, Macmillan, Delhi, 1979
  • B.L. Fadia, Sarkaria Commission Report and Centre-State Relations, Agra.
  • J.R. Wood (ed.) State Politics in Contemporary India: Crisis or Continuity? Westview Press, Boulder, 1984
  • Ramashray Roy and Paul Wallace (eds.) Indian Politics and the 1998 Elections: Regionalism, Hindutva and State Politics, Sage, New Delhi, 2000.
  • Paul Wallace and Ramashray Roy (eds.) India’s 1999 Elections and Twentieth Century Politics, Sage, New Delhi, 2002.
References: 
  • B. Arora and D.V. Verney, Multiple Identities in a Single State : Indian Federalism in a Cooperative Perspective, Delhi Konark, 1995
  • G.Austin, Wokin a Democratic Constitution : The Indian Experience, Delhi, Oxford UniversityPress, 2000
  • P.Chatterjee State and Politics in India Delhi, Oxford UniversityPress, 1997
  • P.Chatterjee State and Politics in India Delhi : The State-Society Interface, New Delhi, South Asian Publishers, 2001
  • Fadia Banlal : State Politics in India, 1984 Vol.II
  • H.A. Gani : Center State Relation and Sarkaria Commission : Issues and Challenges, Deep and Deep Publication New Delhi 1990
  • Z. Hasan : Politics and State in India, New Delhi Sage. 2000
  • R. Khan, Rethinking Indian Federalism, Shimla Indian Institution of Advanced Studies, 1997
  • S. Pai, State Politics : New Dimensions Party System Liberalization and Politics of Indentity, Delhi 2000
  • L. Seez : Federalism Without Center : The Empact of Political Economic Reform on Indian System, New Delhi Sage 2002
  • G Smith, Federalism : The Multi Ethnic Challenge, Harnow Longman, 1995
  • Lawrence Saez, Federalism without a Centre : The Impact of Political and Economic Reform on India's Federal System (New Delhi : Sage, 2002).
  • Terence J. Byres (ed.), The Indian Economy : Major Debates Since Independence     (New Delhi : Oxford, 1998
Academic Year: 
2016-17
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