The objectives of this course are to: 1. To explain Indian democracy the course will highlight various institutional mechanisms, elite bargaining, and the deployment of force, accommodation of regional leaders and their political aspirations, economic development and the constant reconfiguration of caste, party and religious alliances. 2. The paper also focuses 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 state executive institutions and Panchayati Raj System.
Framework of the study of State Politics, Determinants of the State Politics; Salient features of State Politics; Nature of Indian states
Evolution of State in British India, Demand for redistribution of State, State reorganization in 1956
Case of Linguistic states, Case of smaller states, Regionalism, Demand for separate statehood
State Executive- The Governor, Chief Minister, State Legislature
Emerging trends in state politics, Panchayati Raj System and its impact on state politics
Books Recommended: Essential Readings: Fadia,B.L.,(2018), Indian Government and Politics, New Delhi, Sahitya Bhawan Maheshwari,S.R.,(1979), State Governments in India,Delhi, Macmillan Fadia,B.L., Sarkaria Commission Report and Centre-State Relations, Agra. Wood,J.R.,(ed.),(1984),State Politics in Contemporary India: Crisis or Continuity? ,Boulder,Westview Press Roy,R. and Wallace,P.,(eds.),(2000), Indian Politics and the 1998 Elections: Regionalism, Hindutva and State Politics,New Delhi, Sage Wallace, P,and Roy,R., (eds.) ,(2002),India’s 1999 Elections and Twentieth Century Politics,New Delhi, Sage Narayan,Iqbal (ed.) ,(1967),State Politics in India,Meerut, Meenakshi Meerut Weiner ,M,(ed.) ,(1976),State Politics in India, New Jersey,Princeton University Press
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