GROUP D – Comparative Governments

Paper XVIII – Government and Politics in Canada
1) Canadian Political System: Nature and Characteristics
2) The Constitution – Origins and Evolution
3) Governor General, Prime Minister and Cabinet
4) House of Commons, Senate
5) Judicial System
6) Federal System, Quebec Issue, Inter-Governmental Relations
7) Electoral Systems and Elections
Political Parties and Political Process

Paper XIX Government and Politics in Sweden
Government and Politics in Sweden
1) Constitutional Development
2) Parliamentary Monarchy
3) Structure and organs of Government: Executive, Legislative and Judiciary
4) Party System
5) Pressure Groups
6) Bureaucracy
7) Major Issues: Welfare (Social Security), Integration with EU, Redressal of Grievances.

Paper XX – Government and Politics in China
1) Constitutional Development
2) Communists Party in the Political System
3) The State Structure and Administrative Divisions
4) Central Government Organizations: Executive, Legislature and Judiciary
5) Development of the Policy: Problems and Issues
6) Deng Xiaoping era: Liberalization and Reform era
7) Jiang Zemin era, Hu Jintao
Issues of Minorities, Foreign Policy, Economic and Democratic Reforms

Group E (South Asian Studies)

Paper-XVIII -Government and Politics of South Asia – II
(Bhutan and Nepal)
1) Geopolitical realities and historical background of South Asia
2) Socio-economic structure of South Asian countries
3) Constitutional and political development since the Second World War
4) Basic nature of political system of South Asian countries
(i) Democratic and monarchical systems

Paper-XIX Foreign policies of South Asian states- II
(Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan and Nepal)
1) Key determinants and objectives of foreign policies of South Asian states
2) Foreign policies of South Asian states in the post Second World War
3) Inter-regional conflict and intra-regional interactions
(i). Ethnic conflicts

Paper-XX Nation Building In South Asia-II
(Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan and Nepal)
1). The narrative and dynamics of nation-building in South Asia
(i) Contextualising the two-nation theory and partition
(ii) Nation-building and the project of national integration
2). Democracy and its discontent: Challenges of strange multiplicity
(i) Pluralism vs the multicultural debate
(ii) Secularism, communalism and regionalism (the problem of language, caste and religion)
3). Challenges to the nation-state
(i). Politics of recognition and the question of autonomy, self-determination and subnationalism

Group F – Gender and Politics

Paper XIII Gender and Public Policy-II
1) Literacy and education
2) Technology and the digital divide
3) Gender and the Environment Debate
4) Gender, Security and peace

Paper XIX Women in Indian Politics
1) Women and Political Participation in India: An overview
2) Revolt of 1857 and Rani Lakshmi Bai of Jhansi
3) Women in national movement: Annie Besant, Sarojini Naidu, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Kamla Devi Chattopadhyay, Durga Bai Deshmukh, Aruna Asaf Ali, Sarala Devi Chaudhari
4) Women in Election Process in India
5) Women in Parliament
6) Women in State Legislatures
7) Women in Panchayat.

Paper- XX Feminist Political Theory-II
1) Social Democratic Feminism: Bebet, Zetkin and Perkins
2) Radical Feminism: Rejection of Patriarchy
3) Postmodernist Feminism: Importance of Difference
4) Beyond Postmodern Feminism?