Group F Gender and Politics

Paper XIII – Gender and Public Policy
1) Women and Public Policy
2) Women and Politics: Global Patterns
3) Gender and the Human Rights debate
4) Gender and Human Development
5) Health, Population policy and Gender.

Paper-XIV Contemporary Debates on Women’s Issues: Indian Context
1) Women in Nationalist Historiography
2) Women and Development
3) Women, Caste and Class
4) Women’s Rights as Human Rights
5) Women’s Right to Property
6) Empowerment of Women and Public Policy
7) Women and Globalization
Women and Reservation Policy

Paper-XV Feminist Political Theory-I
1) Feminist approach to political theory
2) Liberal Feminism: Wollstonecraft, Fuller and Mill
3) Socialist Feminism: Fourier, Saint Simonians, Thompson
4) Marxist Feminism: Marx, Engles and Kollantai

GROUP G – Political Thought

Paper-XIII Ancient Indian Political Thought and Institutions-I
1. Nature, source and scope.
2. Some Basic Features and Concepts: Religion and Politics, Concept of Man, End of Life, Divinity of Society and its Supremacy
3. Theory and Practice: Study of Institution: Sabha, Samiti, Paura, Janapad, Gana.
4. Political Ideas of following Schools: Dharmashastra, Artah Shastra, Niti Shastra, The Epics.
5. Buddhism, Jainism.

Paper-XIV Medieval Indian Political Thought and Institutions-I
1. Socio-Economic and Political Background.
2. Structure of Medieval Indian Polity: Genesis of Indo-Islamic Polity, Its Features: Sovereignty, Universal Brotherhood and Law of Succession and their practice in India; Political Ideals of Indo-Islamic Polity.
3. Nation Building process.
4. State: New Adjustment in the Spheres of the Islamic State and Islamic Faith; Islamic Theocracy: State and Religion- Different State, Regional States and the Empire of Delhi, Moral Obligations.

Paper-XV Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi
1. Imperialism, Nationalism and New Political trends in India.
2. Advent of Mahatma Gandhi.
3. Sources of Gandhism thought process.
4. Metaphysical Bases: Conception of God and Soul, Primacy of Spirit: Rebirth and Theory of Karma and Social Stratification.
5. Politics and Ethical Principles: Means and End: Religion and Politics, Concept of Man: Forms of Political Behaviour: Truth, Non-Violence and Satyagraha, Concept of Leadership.
6. Principles and Techniques of Struggle, Violence: Satyagraha as a Corporate action, The Leader, Organization and Propaganda, Non-Co-operation, Hartaal, Social Ostracism, Picketing and Civil Disobedience Satyagraha in socio-economic and religious conflicts, Universal Practicability of Satyagraha.

GROUP H – Human Rights

Paper-XIII Human Rights: Ideas and Concepts
1. Meaning and evolution of Human Rights
2. Approaches and perspectives:
(i) Universalistic approach
(ii) Cultural relativist approach
(iii) Marxist approach
(iv) Feminist approach

Paper XIV-Human Rights and Gender Issues/Marginalized Sections
1) Feminism and human rights: women rights
2) Locating child and minor’s rights in human rights discourse
3) From ‘population’ to ‘people’: the indigenous rights discourse
Paper XV-Human Rights and Civil Societies
1. Non-state actors and human rights: evolving international civil societies
2. Non-governmental organizations and human rights:
3. Role of NGOs: International Red Cross Society, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Doctors without Borders, etc.

SEMESTER IV

Paper XVI Contemporary Political Theory: Recent Debates (Compulsory)
1) Postmodernism : Mitchel Foucault
2) Feminism
3) Communitarianism
4) Multiculturalism
5) Environmentalism
6) Marxist Theory Today
7) Orientalism: Edward Said
Existentialism: J.P. Sartre

Paper- XVII Public Administration: Process and Issues (Compulsory) DDN
1) Administrative Culture, Good Governance, Citizen’s Charter
2) Management: Leadership, Decision-making and information technology, effective management: Public Policy analysis: models and process.
3) Administration and planning.
4) Budget: Line-item, Performance and Zero based.
5) Political neutrality and commitment of civil servants. Civil servants’ relation with political executive and people. Generalist-specialist controversy in bureaucracy.