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Working of Indian Political System
Paper Code:
POL 412
Credits:
04
Contact Hours:
60.00
Max. Marks:
100.00
Objective:
This paper focuses on the governance of Indian Federating Units. It also acquaints the students with the dynamic factors influencing the Indian Political System and the experience of last fifty-five years. It also analyzes the challenges before the Indian polity.
12.00
Unit I:
UNIT I
Governance of Indian States; State Executive- Role of Governor in Indian politics
(With special reference to the politics of Rajasthan) , State Legislature
12.00
Unit II:
UNIT II
Political Parties in India- Major National Parties- BJP, Congress, Left Parties;
Politics of Coalition;
12.00
Unit III:
UNIT III
Electoral Process & Voting Behavior
Problem of women participation
12.00
Unit IV:
UNIT IV
Challenges before Indian Democracy-Regionalism and Communalism
12.00
Unit V:
UNIT V
Challenges before Indian Democracy -Casteism and Terrorism
Essential Readings:
- Granville Austin, Working A Democratic Constitution, Oxford University Press,New Delhi,2000
- RC Agarwal, Indian Political System, Sultan Chand & Sons,New Delhi,2009
- Granville Austin, The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation, Oxford University Press, New Delhi,1966
- DD Basu, Shorter Constitution of India, Prentice Hall of India,New Delhi,1994
- BL Fadia, Indian Government and Politics,, Sahitya Bhawan,Agra, 2013
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References:
- NC Asthana, Terrorism, Insurgency and Counter insurgency Operations, Jaipur, Pointer Publishers,Jaipur, 2001.
- Iqbal Narain, Secularism in India, Classic Publishing House, Jaipur,1995.
- Bipan Chandra, In the Name of Democracy, Penguin Books, Delhi,2003.
- Atul Kohli,(ed.), Success of India’s Democracy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001.
- Ajay K Mehra, DD Khanna, D.D., and Gert W. Kueck(eds.), Political Parties and Party Systems,Sage, New Delhi, 2003.
- Morris-Jones, W.H., Indian Government and Politics, University of Hull Press, Hull, 1987.
- WH Jones-Morris, Politics Mainly Indian, Orient Longman, Bombay, 1978.
- TV Sathyamurthy, (ed.), Social Change and Political Discourse in India, Structures of Power,Movements of Resistance, OUP, Delhi, 1996-97.
- Vanaik, Achin, The Painful Transition : Bourgeois Democracy in India,Verso, London, 1990.
- Weiner, Myron, Politics of Scarcity,Asia Publishing House, Bombay, 1963.
- India’s Paradox : Essays in Indian Politics, Sage, New Delhi, 1989.
- Upendra and Bhikhu Parekh, Crisis and Change in Contemporary India, Sage, New Delhi, 1995.
- Satish Deshpande, Contemporary India : A Sociological View, Viking, Penguin Books India, New Delhi, 2003.
- Frankel, Francine (ed.), Transforming India : Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy, OUP, New Delhi, 2002.
- Zoya Hasan, (ed.), Parties and Party Politics in India, OUP, New Delhi, 2001.
- Gopal Niranja Jayal, (ed.), Democracy in India, OUP, New Delhi, 2001.
- Rob Jenkins, Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999.
- Sudipta Kaviraj, (ed.), Politics in India, OUP, Delhi, 2000.
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