REGULATIONS & SYLLABUS Master of Arts Political Science (MPS) (DISTANCE MODE) Directorate of Distance & Continuing Education Fakir Mohan University Vyasa Vihar, Balasore – 756019 Phone: (06782) 241840 Web: www. fmuddce.org
REGULATIONS
&
SYLLABUS
Master of Arts Political Science (MPS)
(DISTANCE MODE)
Directorate of Distance & Continuing Education
Fakir Mohan University
Vyasa Vihar, Balasore – 756019
Phone: (06782) 241840
Web: www. fmuddce.org
REGULATIONS FOR MA IN POL. SCIENCE (MPS) PROGRAMME
1. Course Title:
The two Years Master of Arts (Pol. Sc.) is a general degree programme under distance mode
consisting of four semester examinations. After successful completion of the programme the
MPS degree will be awarded by the University.
MA Programme in Pol. Sc. has been developed with a view to provide an opportunity to those
learners who wish to go for higher studies in History.
The Programme would be of great use for the teachers working in schools, personnel working
in various institutions, working people in various organisations and all graduates who are
desirous of acquiring a Masters Degree in Political Science.
2. Eligibility Criteria for Admission:
A student who has passed Bachelor Degree in any stream from any recognized University shall
be eligible for admission into the MPS programme.
3. Components of MPS Programme:
The MPS programme comprises 24 courses, 6 papers in each semester.
4. Medium of Instruction:
The programme is offered in English only.
5. Duration of the Course:
The duration of the course is minimum two year and maximum four years. In case a student is
not able to secure the pass percentage in four years, he/she has to take re-admission as a fresh
candidate, in case he/she wants to pursue the programme.
6. Attendance:
A student has to attend a minimum of 60% of the classes to be permitted to sit in the semester
examinations. In case of medical ground if certified by a Medical Officer not below M.B.B.S.
doctor, his/her case may be considered. In case a Candidate is unable to acquire the stipulated
attendance, he/she will not be allowed to take the examination. The candidate shall have to take
re-admission to continue the programme.
7. Counseling Sessions:
The counseling sessions are held at the center during week ends, i.e. on Saturdays and Sundays
and Vacations.
Counseling sessions are very different from class room teaching. Counselors will not be
delivering lecturers as in the conventional teaching method. They will try to overcome difficult
that you may face in your study. Before attending the counseling sessions, the students are
advised to go through their course material. Counseling session will be made available by the
study center.
8. Examination and Evaluation:
A student will take four semester examinations to complete the course in two academic years.
The examination relating to this course has two components:
a) Continuous evaluation 20%
b) Terminal examination 80%
Continuous evaluation is related to the assignment (that each student has to submit one
assignment in each Theory paper) before being declared eligible to appear for the terminal
examination.
The term end examination will be of 3 hours duration. To pass, a student has to secure
minimum 40% mark both in continuous evaluation and term end examination of each
paper, On the basis of aggregate marks obtained in all the courses the division will be awarded
as under.
First Division : 60% and above
Second Division : 50% and above but less than 60%
Third Division : 40% and above but less than 50%
9. Evaluation of Answer scripts:
Answer scripts of the final examination will be valued by the examiners appointed by this
University.
10. Back Examination:
If a candidate fails in any one paper (or papers) in any semester/yearly examination he/she has
to appear the end semester examination for that paper (papers) only whenever the said examination is
held.
11. Course Structure, Distribution of Marks and Pass Marks: Year/
Sem.
Course
Code
Course Mark Distribution and Pass Mark
Continuous
Evaluation
Term End
Exam.
Total
Mark
Pass
Mark
Full
Mark
Pass
Mark
Full
Mark
Pass
Mark
First
Year
1st
Sem.
MPS-101 Computer Application 10 4 40 16 50 20
MPS-102 Global Political Economy 10 4 40 16 50 20
MPS-103 Indian Economy 10 4 40 16 50 20
MPS-104 Society in Modern Indian 10 4 40 16 50 20
MPS-105 Indian Government and Politics 10 4 40 16 50 20
MPS-106 Computer Application for Social
Science (Practical) 50 20
TOTAL: 300 120
First
Year
2nd
Sem.
MPS-201 Political Theory 10 4 40 16 50 20
MPS-202 Political Sociology 10 4 40 16 50 20
MPS-203 Public Administration with
Special Reference to India 10 4 40 16 50 20
MPS-204 Theory of International Relations 10 4 40 16 50 20
MPS-205 Comparative Politics 10 4 40 16 50 20
MPS-206 Issues in Human Rights 10 4 40 16 50 20
TOTAL: 300 120
Second
Year
3rd
Sem.
MPS-301 India’s Foreign Policy 10 4 40 16 50 20
MPS-302 Western Political Thought 10 4 40 16 50 20
MPS-303 Government and Politics in
Odisha 10 4 40 16 50 20
MPS-304 Indian Political Tradition 10 4 40 16 50 20
MPS-305 Development Administration in
India 10 4 40 16 50 20
MPS-306 Choice Based Paper 10 4 40 16 50 20
TOTAL: 300 120
Second
Year
4th
Sem.
MPS-401 Research Methodology 10 4 40 16 50 20
MPS-402 Foreign Policy of Major
Powers/India and the World 10 4 40 16 50 20
MPS-403 Advanced Political Theory 10 4 40 16 50 20
MPS-404 Social and Political Movements in
India 10 4 40 16 50 20
MPS-405 Dissertation 50 20
MPS-406 Presentation and Viva-Voce 50 20
TOTAL: 300 120
GRAND TOTAL: 1200
DETAIL SYLLABUS OF MA POL. SC.
1st Semester
MPS-101: Computer Application
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10)
UNIT: - 1: Introduction and data representation
What is an Algorithm? Flowcharting, Problem and its algorithm, Concepts of Programming Language,
Categories of Language of Programming Language.
UNIT:- II: Introduction to Assembler
Advantages of a Translator, Types of Translators, Assembles Implementation, Macro and Macro Processor,
Loaders.
Introduction to Compiler: What is a Computer? Approaches to Compiler Development, Compiler Designing
Phases, Software Tools.
GUI (Graphical User Interface): What is Graphical User Interface, Evolution of Human and Machine Interface,
Common Graphical User Interface Terms, Functionality of Graphical User Interface, A Look at some Graphical
User Interfaces.
UNIT-III :- Introduction to Operating System
What is an Operating System? Evolution of Operating System, Types of Operating System. Operating System
Structure. Future Operating System ---- Basic Commands of DOS.
UNIX Operating System: Basic Feature of UNIX Operating System. Getting Started, Files and Directories.
UNIX-Getting Started Looking At File Contents. Your own Directories, File Permission, Basic Operation on Files,
Changing Permission Modes, Standards Files, Processes.
Text Manipulation: Inspecting Files, Operating on Files.
Editors: General Characteristics of Vi, the Line Editors Ex and Ed, the Stream Editor SED, Changing Several Files
in SED,AWK.
UNIT- IV:- MS-Office
MS-Word, MS-Power Point, MS-Excel, MS-Access, Features of Office Packages
MPS-102: Global Political Economy
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10)
UNIT- 1: The nature and dynamics of Globalization
The Historical Context of Globalization—Colonialization and after Characteristics of Globalization, The role of
Information and communication technology.
UNIT –II: Agencies of Globalization
Political economy of Globalization — Agencies of globalization: Multinational corporations (MNCs) nation-
state, media, market, non Governmental Organizations (NGOs), International Agencies (International Monetary
Fund, World Bank, WTO).
UNIT – III: Globalization and Culture
The ethos of globalization (individualism, consumerism) cultural Patters through the media -- Cultural
homogenization, hegemony and dominance – Globalization and national and cultural identity crisis, global
tourism, diasporic communities, transnational ethnic and religious movements, religious fundamentalism.
UNIT – IV: Globalization and State
Erosion of state sovereignty, inequality within and among nation states – Differential perception of
globalization, socio-economic impact of globalization. Globalization and the Indian experience.
MPS-103: Indian Economy
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10)
Unit:-I:
Structure of the Indian Economy- Colonialism and under development of the Indian Economy, meaning of
colonialism, British Rule and the Exploitation of India, the British Rule and India Under Development, Nature of
the Indian Economy-India-An Under development Economy, India-A Developing Economy, India- A mixed
Economy.
Unit:-II:
The Population Problem and the Economic development-meaning of Population explosion, India’s Population
size and growth trends, cause of the rapid growth of population, India’s Population: the future population and
Economic development, Remedies for population explosion, population policy. Trends and structure of
employment- Unemployment.
Unit:-III:
Basic issues in Agriculture- Indian Agriculture; role, Nature, and crop pattern, Agricultural production and
Productivity trends, land reforms, Agriculture inputs and Green Revolution, Agricultural Finance and Marketing.
Unit:-IV:
Industrial Development and the related issues, Industrial Development during planning period, Small scale and
Cottage Industries, Industrial Policy, Public Sector in the Indian Economy, Privatization of Public Sector
Enterprises: Private Sector in the Indian Economy, Industrial Sickness in India.
MPS-104: Society in Modern India
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10)
Unit –I Modernity and Sociology
o Emergence of Modernity in Europe
o Enlightenment
o Industrial Revolution
o French Revolution
o Sociology in Modern Societies
Unit-II India’s Colonial Modernity and Sociology
o Structural changes in colonial India
o Cultural changes in colonial India
o Emergence of Sociology in India
Unit-III Social Issues in Modern India
o Domestic Violence
o Caste System in India
o Dalits in Modern India
o Tribes in Modern India
Unit-IV Education and Health Issues in Modern India
Education in Modern in India
o Universalization of Primary Education
o Women‟s Education
o Literacy, Enrollment Ratio and Drop –outs
Health in Modern India
o Gender and Health
o Infant Mortality
Maternal Mortality
MPS-105: Indian Government and Politics
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10)
Unit-I:
Constitutional Development in India: A Historical Overview
Fundamental Rights and Duties
Directive Principles of State Policy Unit-II:
President
Prime Minister
Council of Ministers Unit-III:
Parliament- Parliamentary Committees
Functioning of Parliamentary system in India
Supreme Court :Judicial Review, Judicial Activism, Public Interest Litigation Unit IV:
Indian Federalism: Centre –State relations
Issues in Indian Politics: Regionalism, Problems of Secularism, National Integration
Politics of caste, tribe, language and ethnicity and Women Politics
MPS-106: Computer Application for Social Science Research (Practical)
Books Recommended
MPS-101
1. Pradeep K. Sinha, Priti Sinha “Computer Fundamentals” BPB Publications. 2. V. Rajaraman, Fundamentals of Computers” PHI Publications. 3. Rajeev Shah, Tilak Shetty, Meta Gandhi “The C Odyssey-Unix” BPB Publications. MPS-102
1. Appadurai, Arjun.1997. Modernity at large: Cultural dimensions of globalization. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
2. Baylis, John and Smith Steve. 2010. Globalisation of world politics. Oxford University Press: London. 3. O’Brien, R and M. Williams (2004), Global Political Economy: Evolution and Dynamics, London: Palgrave. 4. Ravenhill, J. (ed.) (2005), Global Political Economy, Oxford, O.U.P. 5. Coates, David (2000), Models of Capitalism: Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era Cambridge:
Polity Press. 6. Schwartz, Herman (1994), States versus Markets. London, Macmillan, 1994. 7. Frieden, J. and D. Lake (eds.) (2000), International Political Economy. Perspectives on Global Power and
Wealth, London: Routledge 8. Held, D., and A. McGrew, (2001), The Global Transformations Reader, Oxford, Cambridge: Polity. 9. Hirst, P. and G. Thompson (1996) Globalization in Question: the International Economy and the
Possibilities of Governance, Cambridge: Polity Press. 10. Palan, Ronen & Abbott, Jason (1999), State Strategies in the Global Political Economy, London: Cassel, 11. Strange, Susan (1988), State and Markets. London: Pinter. 12. Stubbs, R. and J. Underhill (eds.) (2000) Political Economy and the Changing Global Order, Oxford: OUP. 13. David N. Balaam and Michael Veseth, “What is IPE” in Introduction to International PoliticalEconomy,
New Jersey, Pretice Hall, 2001. 14. Susan Strange, “Political Economy and International Relations” in Ken Booth and Steve Smith, eds.
International Relations Theory Today, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. 15. Robert Gilpin, “Three Ideologies of Political Economy” in The Political Economy of International Relations,
Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1987. 16. John Baylis and Steve Smith, eds., The Globalization of World Politics, 4th edition, Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2007. 17. David Held and Anthony McGrew (eds.), “The Great Globalization Debate” in D. Held and A. 18. McGrew (eds.) The Global Transformations Reader, 2nd edition, Cambridge UK, Polity Press, 2002. 19. Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey R.d. Underhill (eds.) Political Economy and the Changing Global Order, st.
Martin’s Press, New York, 1994. 20. Amit Bhaduri, Nationalism and Economic Policy in the Era of Globalization” in Deepak Nayyar (ed.)
Governing Globalization: Issues and Institutions, OUP, Delhi, 2000; pp. 19-50. 21. Robert Keohane, “The Theory of Hegemonic Stability and Changes in International Economic Rgimes, 1967-77” in Ole R.
Holsti, Randolph M. Severson and Alexander L. George (eds.) Change in the International System, Boulder, Westview Press, 1980.
22. Bruno Frey, “Public Choice View of International Political Economy” in Peter Katzenstein, Robert Keohane and Stephen Krasner (eds.) Exploration and Contestation in the study of World Politics, MIT press, Cambridge, Mass. 1999.
23. Bina Agarwal, A Field of One’s Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia, Cambridge, CUP, 1995. 24. Sunanda Sen, “On Methods and Analysis in Feminist Economics” in Asian Women, pp. 17-29.
25. Adrian Wood, “North-South trade and Female Labour in Manufacturing: An Asymmetry” in Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 27 No.2.
26. C. Roe Goddard, Patric Cronin and Kishore C. dash (eds.) International Political Economy: State-Market Relations in a Changing World Order, Boulder, Lyne Reinner, 2003.
27. John H. Jackson, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 in The World Trade Organization: Constitution and Jurisprudence, London, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1998.
28. Scholte, “Global Trade and Finance” in Baylis and Smith, The Globalization of World Politics, 4th edition, 2007. 29. Robert Gilpin, chapter 8 in The Political Economy of International Relations, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1987. 30. Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents, Allen lane, London, 2002. 31. Jagdish Bhagwati, InDefense of Globalization, OUP, Delhi, 2004. 32. Ha-Joon Chang, Kicking away the ladder: Development Strategy in Historical perspective, Anthem Press, London, 2002. 33. Sanjaya Lall, “Transnational Corporations and Technology flows” in Deepak Nayyar, Governing Globalization: Issues and
Institutions, OUP, Delhi, 2000 Avinash Jha, Background to Globalization, Centre for Education, Bangalore, 2000. MPS-103
1. Dutta ,R & Sundaram ; “Indian Economy” 2013 Edition, S.Chand Publication House. 2. Mishra &Puri: “Indian Economy”, 2014 Edition, Himalaya Publication House. 3. Aggarwal, A.N: Indian Economy, Latest Edition, New Age International Pub. (P) Limited. 4. Kapila, Uma: Indian economy, Indian Economy: Performance and Policies, Latest Edition, Academic Foundation
MPS-104
1. Tunner, J. H.: Sociology.
2. Thomption, K and Bocack ,H.R: Modernity(ed)
3. Doshi, S.L: Neo-Sociological Theory
4. Bottomare,T.B.: T. B., Sociology.
5. Smetsher, N.: An Introduction to Sociology.
6. Michel, S:Dalit Vision Banergie,D: Poverty, Class and Health Culture and in India, Lok Prrakash
Publication, India.
7. Kumar, K, Political Agenda of Education, Sage publication
8. More, H.E.,: Social Institutions.
9. Kumar, R:History of Doing,Kali for Women
10. Sarangi, K and Vaid, S :Recasting Women(ed.),Kali for Women
11. Davis, K,: Human Society.
12. Lappire,: R.T., Social Change
13. Singh, Y.: Modernigation of Indian Tradition
MPS-105 1. Basu, Durga Das, Introduction to the Constitution of India, New Delhi, 1996 2. Chandra, Bipan., Communalism in Modern India, New Delhi, 1984 3. Granville, Austin, The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation, 1999 4. Granville, Austin, Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience, 2000. 5. Kothari, Rajni, Caste and Politics in India, New Delhi, 1970. 6. Kothari, Rajni, Politics in India, Delhi, 1985 7. Morris-Jones, W.H., Government and Politics of India, 1974. 8. Naranga, A.S., Indian Government and Politics, 2000. 9. Paul, R. Brass, Politics of India since Independence, 1994 10. Pylee, M.V., An Introduction to the Constitution of India, 1998 11. Ray, Amal, Tension Areas in India’s Federal System, Calcutta, 1970 12. Weiner, Myron, The Indian Paradox, New Delhi, 1989. 13. Chakraborty, Bidyut and Pandey Rajendra. 2008. Indian Government and Politics. Sage Publications: New Delhi.
14. Peu, Gosh. 2012. Indian Government and Politics. PHI: New Delhi. 15. Arora, Balveer and Verney, Douglas edited, Multiple Identities in a Single Stale: Indian Federalism in
Comparative Perspective, Delhi, Konark, 1995. 16. Austin, Granville, Working of a Democratic Constitution, New Delhi, Oxford, 2000.
17. Brass, Paul edited, Ethnic Groups and the State. London, Croom Helm, 1985. 18. Corbridge, Stuart and John Harris, Reinventing India: Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular
Democracy, New Delhi, Oxford, 2000. 19. Frankel, Francine et. Al edited. Transforming India, Delhi, Oxford, 2000. 20. Jayal, Niraja Gopal edited, Democracy in India, New Delhi, Oxford, 2001. 21. Kohli, Atul edited, The Success of India’s Democracy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,2001.
2nd
Semester
MPS-201: Political Theory
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10)
UNIT – I:
Approaches to the study of political Theory
UNIT - II:
Theories of state: Social contract, Liberal, Neo-Liberal, Marxist, Communication,(8 classes) Post-Colonial, State
Sovereignty: (8 classes) Monistic and pluralistic Theories.(
UNIT – III:
Political Ideologies: Liberalism,(3 classes) Socialism, Marxism, (6 classes) Nationalism and Internationalism( 4
classes)
Democracy and Human Rights: (4 classes) Theories of Democracy,(4 classes) Theories of Human Rights,
Theories of Justice, Equality (6 classes)
UNIT – IV:
Democracy and Human Rights: (4 classes) Theories of Democracy,(4 classes) Theories of Human Rights,
Theories of Justice, Equality (6 classes). Theories and models of Political Development (3 classes)
MPS-202: Political Sociology
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10)
Unit-I
Political Sociology: Origin and Development, Definition and scope
Approaches to the study of political sociology Unit-II
Political culture
Political socialization
Political participation
Political communication Unit-III
Authority, legitimacy
Elite theory
Leadership and circulation of elites
Unit-IV
Social stratification and its bases
Political development
MPS-203: Public Administration with special reference to India
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10)
Unit--I
Evolution of Administration in India: Kautilya’s Arthashastra; Mughal Administration; Legacy of British rule.
Public Administration after adoption of the Constitution of India. Unit –II
Structure of Central Administration : Central Secretariat, Cabinet Secretariat, Ministries and Departments; Boards; Commissions; Attached Offices; Field Organizations
Recruitment and Training of All India Central Services; Union Public Service Commission
Minister-Civil Servant Relationship Unit –III
State Secretariat
Chief Secretary
Directorates
District Administration: District Collector: Changing Role
DRDA and Special Development Programmes Unit –IV
Administrative Culture and Ethics,
Corruption in Indian Administration
New Economic policy, Public Undertaking,
IT and Indian Administration.
MPS-204: Theory of International Relations
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10)
Unit-I:
Introduction to IR Theory: Defining Theory; Theorizing about International Relations and System of Analysis.
Major Theoretical Debates: Morality versus National Interest in international politics
Approaches to the study of international politics: Game theory, Decision Making, Functionalism and Neo–functionalism, Critical Theory; Feminist Theories; Post- Modernism
Unit-II:
International politics as a structure for power: Power analysis
Balance of Power; Security Dilemma; Regime Stability; Power Politics vs. International Order and Cooperation.
National Power
National Interest Unit-III:
Diplomacy: Old and New Diplomacy, Open and Secret Diplomacy; Personnel and institutional Diplomacy; Bilateral and Multilateral Diplomacy.
The nuclear age and its impact on international relations
Disarmament and Arms Control
Unit-IV:
Theories on International Political Economy: Dependency Theory; World Systems Theory
New international Economic Order
New World Order
MPS-205: Comparative Politics
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10)
Unit-I
Comparative politics: Nature and Scope
Major Approaches to the study of comparative politics: Traditional, Structural –Functional , systems, Marxist and political Economy
Unit-II:
Constitutionalism: Development of the concept, types of Constitutional systems, Functions and Capacity of Constitution
Political change and nation Building Unit-III:
Relations between centre and units : impact of political , cultural , economic and linguistic factors
Politics of Representation and participation, Political parties Unit-IV:
Social movements (old and new) in advanced industrial and developing societies: peasant movement, women’s movement, environmental movement
MPS-206: Issues in Human Rights
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10)
UNIT- I
The Idea of Human Rights
Nature of Rights: Moral Rights and Legal Rights, Justification of Rights, Negative and Positive Rights, Three
Generations of Human Rights, Basic Rights, Justification and Critique of Universal Human Rights
UNIT -II
Human Nature: Needs, Moral Capacity, Natural Law, Doctrines of Social Contract Theories (Groot, Locke,
Rousseau, Rawls), Utilitarianism (Bentham, Austin, Hart), Libertarian View on Rights (Nozick), Kantian
Approach (Gewirth), Rights as „Trumps‟ (Dworkin), Legal Realism (Llewellyn, Pound, McDougal), Marxism
and Declaration of Human Responsibilities
UNIT – III Human Rights in Western Thought
a) Pre-World War II Development – Antiquity: Ius Civile, Christianity, English Tradition: Bill of Rights
(1689), The American and French Revolutions, Universal Suffrage and Early Feminism, The Red Cross,
The Labour Movement and Socialism, The League of Nations
b) Post – World War II Development
The Nuremberg Trial: Crime against Peace and Humanity, The UN Universal Declaration of Human
Rights,
The UN: Fundamental Rights, Civil and Political Rights, Social and Cultural Rights, Collective Rights,
The Helsinki Process, Regional Human Rights System, Non- Governmental Organizations
UNIT – IV Non- Western Conceptions of Human Rights
Human Rights in Africa, Human Rights in ISLAM, Human Rights in South Asia
Globalization, Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights
Globalization and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Globalization, Hegemony and Cultural Identity
Cosmopolitanism vs. Communitarianism, Universalism vs. Relativism
Books Recommended
MPS-201
1. Berlin, Isaiah, Four Essay on Concepts of Liberty, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1969. 2. Dworkin, Ronald, Taking Rights Seriously. London, Duckworth, 1978. Goodin, Robert E. and 3. Hans-Dieter Klingemann edited, A New Handbook of Political Science. Oxford, Oxford 4. University Press, 1996. 5. Goodin, Robert E. and Philip Pettit edited, A Companion to Contemporary Political 6. Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford-University Press, 1993. 7. Goodin, Robert E. and Philip Pettit edited Contemporary Political Philosophy. Oxford, 8. Blackwell Publishers, 1997. 9. Gutman, Amy edited, Multicultvralism: Examining the Politics of Recognition, Princeton N.J, 10. Princeton University Press. 1994. 11. Hampton, Jean, Political Philosophy: An Introduction, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998. 12. Harrison, Ross, Democracy, London, Routledge, 1993. 13. Miller, David and Larry Siedentop edited, The Nature of Political Theory, Oxford, Clarendon 14. Press, 1983 15. Okin, Susan Moller, Justice, Gender and the Family, New York, Basic Books, 1989. 16. Rawls, John, A Theory of Justice,Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1971). 17. Rawls, John, Political Liberalism, New York, Columbia University Press, 1993. 18. Sandel, Michael, Liberalism and The Limits of Justice, Cambridge Mass, Cambridge University 19. Press, 1982.
MPS-202 1. Almond, G,A And S Verba, The Civic Culture, Princeton,1963 2. Bottomore, Tom, Political Sociology 3. Coser, Lewis, A Political Sociology 4. Das, H.H And B.C Choudhury, Introduction To Political Sociology, Vikas: New Delhi,2002 5. Dowse, Robert E and John A Hughes, Political Sociology, London 1972 6. Duverger, M. Party, Politics And Pressure Groups (London,1972) 7. More, Wilbert E. Social Change 8. Mukhopadhyay,A. Political Sociology 9. Orum, M Anthony, Introduction To Political Sociology 10. Padhy,K. S. Political Sociology , New Delhi ,1989 11. Parry, G. Political Elites, London 1969 12. Pye,L.W. Aspects Of Political Development , Delhi,1972. 13. Rathore,L.S (Ed) Political Sociology 14. Rush, M And P Althroff, An Introduction To Political Sociology,London,1971 15. Weiner, M and Huntington(eds) Understanding Political Development ,
MPS-203 1. Bhattacharya, Mohit, Bureaucracy and development Administration (1979). 2. Bhattacharya, Mohit, Public Administration and planning (1996). 3. Chesney, Gen. Sir George, Administration in India (Metropolitan Book Company, New Delhi ). 4. Maheswari, S.R. Indian Administration (Orient Longman , Hyderabad ). 5. Maheswari, S.R., Public Administration In India (Macmillan India Ltd., Delhi) 6. Mukhi, H.R., Public Administration in India (Surjeet Publications, New Delhi).
7. Sachdeva, D.R., Social Welfare Administration in India (Kitab Mahal, Allahabad). 8. Sachdeva, P., Urban Local Government and Administration in India (Kitab mahal , Allahabad). 9. Sapru, R.K., Civil Service Administration in India (Deep and Deep publications, New Delhi). 10. Sharma, M.P. and B.L. Sadan, Public Administration in Theory and practice(1998). 11. Singh, S.N. Political Ideas and Institution under the Mauryas (Janaki Prakashan, Patna).
12. Albrow, Martin, Bureaucracy, London, Macmillan, 1978. 13. Arora, Ramesh K, Comparative Public Administration: An Ecological Perspective, New Delhi, 14. Associated Publishing House, 1979. 15. Bhattacharya, Mohit, Restructuring Public Administration Essays in Rehabilitation, New 16. Delhi, Jawahar, 1999.
MPS-204 1. Scott Burchill, Andre Linklater and Terry Nardin, eds., Theories of International Relations, 4th Edition,
(Palgrave Macmillan Publishers, 2009). 2. Aron Raymond, „Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations,‟ (New Brunswick, New
3. Jersey, London, Transaction Publishers, 2003).
4. Waltz Kenneth N., Theory of International Politics. (New York: Addison-Wesley, 1979).
5. Morgenthau Hans., Politics Among Nation, (Boston: McGraw Hill, 1985)
6. Strange Susan, States and Markets: An Introduction to International Political Economy,
(London: Pinter Publishers, 1994)
7. Chris Brown, Understanding International Relations, (MacMillan: London, 1997) 8. Baral, J.K., International Politics: Dynamics and Dimensions (New Delhi, 1987) 9. Bull, Hadley, The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics (New York, 1977) 10. Gilpin, Robert, The political Economy of International Relations Princeton, (1887) 11. Holsti, K.J., International Politics: Framework for analysis (New Delhi, 1989) 12. Keohane, Robert, After Hegemony (Princeton, 1984)
MPS-205
1. Allbrow, Martin, The Global Age: State and Society: Beyond Modernity, Cambridge, Polity 2. Alavi, H. and T. Shanin, Sociology of Developing Societies, London, Macmillan, 1982. 3. Alford, Robert A. and Roger Friedland, Powers of Theory, Cambridge, Cambridge University 4. Press, 1985. 5. Bottomore, T.B, Elites and Society, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1985. 6. Cantori, L.J and A. H. Ziegler edited, Comparative Politics in the Post-Behaviouralist Era, 7. London, Lynne Rienner, 1988. 8. Chilcote, Ronald, Theories of Comparative Politics: The Search for a Paradigm Reconsidered, 9. Boulder, Westview Press, 1994. 10. Hardtm, Michael and Antonio Negri, Empire, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2000. 11. Manor, James edited, Rethinking Third World Politics, London, Longman, 1991. 12. Moore, B. The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, Harmondsworth, Pelican, 1966. 13. Sartori,G., Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis., Cambridge, Cambridge 14. University Press, 1976. 15. Stephan, Alfred, Arguing Comparative Politics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001. 16. Tornquist, Olle, Politics and Development, Delhi. Sage, 1999. 17. Wayne, Ellwood, The No-Nonsense guide to Globalisation, London, Verso, 2001. 18. Wright, Mills C. The Power Elite, New York, John Wiley, 1959. 19. Rahnema, Majid edited. The Post-Development Reader, Dhaka: The University Press, 1997. 20. Wiarda, H. J. edited, New Developments in Comparative Politics, Boulder. Colorado, 21. Westview, 1986.
MPS-206 1. Alston Philip, The United Nations and Human Rights-A Critical Appraisal, Oxford, Clarendon, 1995.
2. Baxi, Upendra edited, The Right to be Human, Delhi, Lancer, 1987
3. Beetham, David edited, Politics and Human Rights, Oxford, Blackwell, 1995
4. Desai, A R. (ed), Violations of Democratic Rights in India, Bombay, Popular Prakashan, 1986.
5. Evans, Tony, The Politics of Human Rights: A Global Perspective, London, Pluto Press, 2001.
6. Haragopal, G, Good Governance: Human Rights, Perspective, Indian Journal of Public
7. Administration, vol 44 (3), July-September,1998.
8. Hargopal. G. Political Economy of Human Rights, Hyderabad, Himalaya, 1999.
9. Human Rights in India- The Updated Amnesty International Reports, Delhi, Vistaar
3rd
Semester
MPS-301: India’s Foreign Policy
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10)
Unit – I
Evolution of Indian foreign policy: The “liberal” phase – Nehru and Non-Alignment
The “realist” phase – post-Nehru shift to state-centrism
The “neo-liberal” phase – impact of the end of the Cold War and Globalization
Determinants of Foreign Policy
Making of India’s Foreign Policy Unit – II
India and neighbors: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Srilanka.
India and Regional Organizations: SAARC, ASEAN, EU, BRICS, BIMSTEC, SCO, APEC, G-20. Unit – III
India and Africa
India and Major Powers: United States, China and Russia. Unit –IV
Concept and dynamics of national security, threat perceptions, power projection: India’s Nuclear Policy
India and the United Nations
MPS-302: Western Political Thought
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10)
Unit -- I
Plato
Aristotle Unit –II
Hobbes
Locke
Rousseau Unit-- III
Bentham
J.S. Mill
Unit – IV
Marx
Lenin
Gramsci
MPS-303: Government and Politics in Odisha
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10)
Unit-I
Emergence of Odisha as a separate state
Freedom movement in Odisha
Integration of Princely State
Unit-II
Governor
Legislative assembly and Council of Ministers
Judiciary: High Court and the subordinate judiciary Unit-III
Political Parties and Pressure Groups
Elections and Voting Behavior
Politics of Defection
Coalition Politics Unit-IV
Scheduled Castes: Leadership and Political Participation
Scheduled Tribes: Leadership and Political Participation
Women Politics
MPS-304: Indian Political Tradition
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10)
Unit-I
Manu and Kautilya
Gokhale and Tilak Unit-II
Aurobindo
Vivekananda
M.N.Roy Unit-III
M.K. Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Subash Chandra Bose Unit-IV
B.R. Ambedkar
Jayprakash Nara
MPS-305: Development Administration in India
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10)
Unit-I:
Development Administration : Meaning, Scope and Significance
Approaches to development Administration : Western Liberal , Gandhian, Marxist Theories Unit-II:
Planning : Meaning, and Objectives
Planning at the Central level: Planning Commission, National Development Council
Planning at the State and District levels Unit-III:
Role of Bureaucracy in Development Administration
Challenge of development goals
Interaction between Bureaucracy and Citizen, People’s Participation and Development. Unit-IV:
Democratic Decentralization : Concept , Need and Obstacles
Development Administration: Problems and Prospects
MPS-306: Choice Based Paper
Contemporary Issues in World Politics
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10) UNIT-I: Contemporary Trends and Processes
a) End of Bipolarity b) Changing trends in Super Power relations c) Emerging new centers of power d d) Role of non-state actors e) Terrorism and International peace f) Politics of nuclearizatton g) Ecological and Development issues
UNIT-II: Major Powers and Regional conflicts
a) Major Powers and West Asia b) Major Powers and South East Asia c) Major Powers and South Asia d) Politics of the Indian Ocean e) Geopolitics of South China Sea UNIT-III: The Developing Countries and the World a) Non-aligned movement b) Oil Politics c) North-South conflict and NIEO d) South-South Co-operation Regionalism and Regional Blocs a) Significance and role b) E.U c) ASEAN d) SAARC
e) APEC
f) SCO
UNIT-IV: Changing role of the United Nations in International Politics a) New Challenges to peacekeeping b) U.N and Human Development c) Structural Reform of the UN
Elective MPS-306: Gender and Politics
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10)
UNIT-1
Introduction
a) Understanding Gender and Politics: Sex and Gender
b) Gender: Symbols, norms, institutions, Masculinities/ femininities
c) Gender and caste, gender and class, communalism and ethnic politics and gender.
d) Patriarchy: Ideology and Practice, Private and Public
UNIT-2
a) Feminism: Concept and Relevance, differences within feminism
b) Gender and Social History: its Emergence, Growth and Significance
c) Feminist Theories: Liberal Feminism, Marxist, Radical, post-Modern and Difference Feminism – the dialectic
of sex
d) Engendering Rights: Gender and Citizenship
UNIT-3
a) Women‟s Movement in India: Colonial and post-colonial Times
b) Women in Telangana and Ambedkar Movement
c) Suffrage movement and Demand for Representation
d) Emergence of Dalit Feminism: Tara Bai Sindhe, Mukta Salve, Jyotiba Phule and Savitri Bai Phule,
Pandita Ramabai, Gandhi, Periyar and Ambedkar
e) Eco-feminism and Gender roles: Chipko Movement
UNIT-4
Women and Political Representation in India: A Debate
a) Reservation of seats for Women in Parliament and Legislative Assemblies
b) An overview of women in local-self government
c) Women in Odisha Politics
d) Issues in Gender and Politics: Statistical profile of Women in India, Issues of Labour, work and livelihood,
Health, Violence and Education, Politics of Contraception, gender audit, globalization and women.
Books Recommended
MPS-301 1. Appadorai, A. and M.S. Rajan, India’s Foreign Policy and Relations with South Asia, New Delhi, 1985.
2. Babu, Ramesh (Ed.), Globalization and South Asian States, New Delhi.
3. Bandyopadhyaya, J., Making of India’s Foreign Policy, New Delhi.
4. Banerjee, Dipankar, Cooperative and Comprehensive Security for South Asia.
5. Cohen, Stephen P., and Richard L. Park. India: Emergent Power? New York: Crane, Russak
6. and Company, 1978.
7. Iyer, Nandhini, India and the Commonwealth, New Delhi, 1985
8. J N Dixit, External Affairs – Cross-Border Relations, (Roli Books: New Delhi, 2003)
9. Kamat, P.M(Ed) Indo –US Relations: Dynamics of change, New Delhi, 1987.
10. Madaan, Devendra, SAARC; Origin, Development, Programmes
11. Mansingh, Surjit, India’s search for Power, New Delhi, 1984
12. Prasad, Bimal (Ed) India’s Foreign Policy, New Delhi, 1979
13. Prasad, Bimal(Ed) Regional cooperation in South Asia, New Delhi.
14. Prasad, Bimal, The origins of India’s Foreign policy, Calcutta, 1962
15. Ram, Raghunath , Superpowers and Indo-Pakistan subcontinent, New Delhi
16. Rizvi, Gowher, South Asia in the Changing International Order
17. Sengupta, Bhavani, Regional Cooperation and Development in South Asia, Vol. I &II, New Delhi, 1986
18. Sumit Ganguly, India’s Foreign Policy-Retrospect and Prospect, (Oxford: New Delhi, 2010)
19. Muni S.D. India’s Foreign Policy – The Democratic Dimension (Foundation Books: New Delhi, 2009)
20. Nanda B.R. edited India's Foreign Policy in the Nehru Years.New Delhi, Vikas, 1976.
MPS-302
1. Aristotle, The Politics, Translated Ernest Braker, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998 edn.
2. Hobbes, Thomas, The Leviathan, Amherst New York, Prometheus Books, 1988.
3. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Fredrik, The Philosophy of Right, Translated by T.M. Knox Oxford,
4. Oxford University Press, 1942.
5. Machiavalli, Niccolo, The Prince and The Discourses, translated L. Ricci, New York, Modern
6. Library, 1950.
7. Kant, Political Writing, Translated by H.B Nisbet, edited by Hans Reiss, Cambridge,
8. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
9. Marx Karl 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts' 1844. Translated by Lloyd G Easton and
10. Kurt H Guddat in Marx Selections edited by Allen W Wood. New York, Macmillan, 1988 pp
11. 40-79.
12. Marx Karl, Capital volume 1, Moscow Progress, 1977.
13. Avineri Shlomo, Hegel's Theory of the Modern State, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
14. 1972.
15. Beiner, Ronald and William James Booth, Kant and Political Philosophy New Haven, Yale
16. University Press, 1993.
17. Cohen, G.A, Karl Marx's Theory of History, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1978.
18. Lukacs, G., History and Class Consciousness, Merlin, 1978.
19. 'Machiavelli' by Quentin Skinner, 'Hobbes' by Richard Tuck, 'Mill' by William Thomas, 'Marx'
20. by Peter Singer in Great Political Thinkers. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992.
21. Maclntyre, Alasdair, A Short History of Ethics, Oxford, Aldern Press, 1967.
22. Macpherson, C.B., The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism, Oxford, Oxford
23. University Press, 1962.
24. O'Neil, Onora, Constructions of Reason: Explorations of Kant's Practical Philosophy,
25. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989.
26. Pocock J.G. A., The Machiavellian Moment, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1975.
27. Raphael D.D., Hobbes: Morals and Politics, Great Britain, Cambridge •University Press, 1977.
28. Rawls, John, Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy, Cambridge, Harvard University
MPS-303 1. Bailey, F.G., Political and social change: Orissa in 1959.
2. Banerjee, K., Regional Political Parties in India (New Delhi, 1984).
3. Basitan, A.K., Growth and Development of Urban Local Administration (New Delhi, 1986).
4. Das, H.H. and Choudhury, B.C., Federal and State Politics in India (New Delhi, 1990).
5. Mohanty, Arun, Swain, Sumant, Pradhan, Ramakrushna, Contemporary Odisha: Realities and Vision,
Axis Books, New Delhi, 2011.
6. Jena, B.B. and Baral, J.K. (Eds.), Government and Politics in Orissa (Lucknow, 1989).
7. Mohanty, Nibedita, Oriya Nationalism (New Delhi, 1982).
8. Mohapatra, J.K., Factional Politics in an Indian State (Allahabad, 1986).
9. Mishra, Ram Narayan, Regionalism and State Politics in India.
10. Nanda, S., Coalitional Politics in Orissa (New Delhi, 1979).
11. Padhi, K.S., Corruption in Politics (New Delhi, 1985).
12. Padhi, K.S. and Muni, P.L., Corruption in Indian Politics (New Delhi, 1987).
13. Mohanty Arun, Pradhan, Ramakrushna, Emerging Odisha – Problems and Prospects, Mittal Books, New
Delhi, 2014.
14. Panda, S.L., Gender and Political Participation (New Delhi, 1995).
15. Patnaik, B.K., Politics of Floor Crossing (Cuttack, 1985).
16. Patnaik, Lal Mohan, Resurrected Orissa.
MPS-304
1. Ambedkar, B.R., Annihilation of Caste, edited by Mulk Raj Anand, Delhi, Arnold Publisher,
2. Appadorai, A., Indian Political Thinking in the 20th Century (New Delhi, 1987).
3. Appadorai, A., Indian Political Thinking Through the Ages, Delhi, Khama, 1992.
4. Appadorai, A., Political Thought in India, Delhi, Khama, 2002.
5. Banarasi Das, 1959.
6. Basham, A.L., The Wonder That Was India, Delhi, Rupa, 1982.
7. Bharathi, K.S., Satyagraha of Mahatma Gandhi (New Delhi, 1990).
8. Chatterjee, P., Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse?, London,
9. Dalton, D.G., Indian Idea of Freedom. Gurgaon, Academy Press, 1984.
10. Das, H.H. and Patra, P.S.N., Indian Political Thought ( Sterling).
11. Desai, A.R. Social Background of Indian Nationalism (Bombay, 1996).
12. Gandhi, M.K., Hind Swaraj, Ahmadabad, Navjeevan, 1938.
13. igam, R.L., Radical Humanism in M.N. Roy (New Delhi, 1988)
14. Jha, D.N., Ancient India: An Introductory Outline. Deihi, People's Publishing House, 1993.
15. Karunakaran, K.P., Indian Politics from Dadabhai Nauroji to Gandhi, Delhi, Asia 1967.
16. Khatana, M. Mauzoor, Iqbul and Foundations of Pakistani Nationalism: (1857-1947),
17. Kosambi, D.D., Culture and Civilizations in Ancient India, Delhi, Vikas, 1980.
18. Lahore, Book Traders, 1990.
19. Masih, Y., Introduction to Religious Philosophy, Delhi, Motilal Banarsidas. 1971.
20. Mehta, V.R., Foundations of Indian Political Thought, Delhi, Manohar Publisher, 1992.
21. Mehta, V.R., Ideology, Modernisation and Politics in India.
22. Mohanty, Dushmanta, Indian Political Tradition (New Delhi, 1997).
23. Narvane, V.S. Modern Indian Thought, New Delhi, Orient Longman, 1978.
24. Padhi, K.S., Indian Political Tradition (Berhampur, 1997).
25. Pantham, T. and Deutsch, K.L. edited, Modern Indian Political Thought, Delhi, Sage, 1986.
MPS-305
1. Arora, R.K. and Sharma, S. (Eds.), Comparative and Development Administration: Ideas and Action,
Jaipur: Arihant, 1992.
2. Bava, Noorjahan, The Social Science Perspective and Method of Public Administration: Policy and
Development Administration Approach, New Delhi: Uppal, 1992.
3. Bhattacharya, Mohit, Bureaucracy and Development Administration, Delhi: Upal,1979.
4. Datta P., Major Issues in the Development debate: Lessons in Empowerment from India, New Delhi :
Kanishka, 1998.
5. Dubashi, P.R. Recent Trends in public Administration, Delhi: Kaveri, 1995.
6. Dwivedi, O.P. Development Administration: From Underdeveloped to sustainable Development.
Houndmills: Macmillan,1994.
7. Franda, Marcus, Voluntary Associations and Local Development in India, New Delhi: Young Asia,1983.
8. Grant, G.F. Development Administration: Concepts, Goals, Methods, Madison: University of
Wisconsin,1979.
9. Jain, R.B. and Chaudhari, P.N. (Eds), Bureaucratic Values in Development, New Delhi: Uppal.
10. Riggs, F.W. (Ed.), Frontiers of Development Administration, Durham: Duke University Press, 1970.
11. Srivastava, K.B. New Perspectives of Development Administration in India, New Delhi: Concept
Publishing, 1994.
12. Verma, S.P. and Sharma, S.K. (Eds.), Development Administration, New Delhi: II PA, 1984.
13. Jalan, Bimal(ed), The Indian Economy: Problems and Prospects, New Delhi, Viking, 1992
14. Brass, Paul, The Politics of India since Independence, Delhi, Foundation Book, 1992.
15. Casseu, Robert and Vijay Joshi (eds.) India: the Future of Economic Reform, New Delhi, Oxford
University Press. 1995.
16. Frankel, Francine et. al. (eds.), Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy,
Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2000.
17. Jayal, Niraja Gopal edited, Democracy in India, New Delhi. Oxford University Press, 2001.
18. Kaviraj, Sudipta, 'Dilemnas of Democratic Development in India' in Adrian Leftwich edited
MPS-306
1. Berridg, Geoff, Return to the UN: UN diplomacy in Regional Conflicts.Sussex, Wheatsheaf,
1991.
2. Calvocoressi, Peter., World Politics Since 1945,revised edition, London, Longman, 2001.
3. Doyle, Michael W and Kenberry, G. John., (eds.), New Thinking in International Relations
Theory Boulder, West View, 1997.
4. Halle L.J. The Cold War as History.New York, Harper and Row, 1967.
5. Harris Nigel. The End of the Third World.London, Penguin, 1985.
6. Keohane, Robert and Helen Milner eds. Internalization and Domestic Politics,Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 1996.
7. Miller J.D.B., Politics of the Third World,London, Oxford University Press, 1966.
8. Cox Michael and Ken Booth, The Eighty Years Crisis: International Relations 1919-1999,
Cambridge University Press, 1998.
9. Maria L., and Jan Stefan Fritz. Value Pluralism, Normative Theory and International Relations.
Houndsmill, Macmillan, 2000.
10. Mayall James. World Politics: Progress and Its Limits.Cambridge Polity Press, 2000.
11. Nicholas H. The UN as a Political Institution.Oxford. Oxford University Press, 1975.
12. Schuman F.L. The Cold War: Retrospect and Prospect,Los Angeles, Baton Rouge, 1967.
13. Waltz K., Theory of International Politics,New York, Random House, 1979.
14. Walker R.B.J. One World, Many Worlds: Struggles for a Just World Peace.Colorado, Lynne
Rienner, 1998.
15. Wolpert S. Roots of Confrontation in South Asia.Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1982.
Elective
1. John Stuart Mill "The Subjection of Women" in Alice Rossi's The Feminist Papers (1973:
Bantam), pp. 196-238.
2. Fredrich Engels "The Origins of the Family" in Alice Rossi's The Feminist Papers (1973), pp.
480-495.
3. Dahlerup, Drude (Ed.), Women, Quotas and Politics, Routledge, Abingdon, 2007.
4. Dhanda, Meena (Ed.), Reservation for Women, Women Unlimited, New Delhi, 2008.
5. DuBois, Ellen Carol, Woman Suffrage and Women's Rights, New York University Press, New
York, 1998.
6. Karam, Azza (Ed.), Women in Politics Beyond Numbers, International Institute for Democracy
and Electoral Assistance, Stockholm, 1998.
7. Lister, Ruth, Citizenship: Feminist Perspectives, Second Edition, Palgrave Macmillan,
Houndmills, 2003.
8. Lovenduski, Joni, Feminizing Politics, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2005.
9. Mansbridge, Jane, “Quota Problems: Combating the Dangers of Essentialism”, Politics and
Gender, Volume 1, No. 4, December 2005, pp. 622-638.
10. Menon, Nivedita, Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law, Permanent Black,
Delhi, 2004, pp.1-65, 166- 203.
11. Morgan, Sue (Ed.), The Feminist History Reader, Routledge, London, 2006.
12. Phillips, Anne, The Politics of Presence, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995, Chapters 1-3, 6 and 7.
13. Pitkin, Hanna Fenichel, The Concept of Representation, University of California Press,
Berkeley, 1972.
14. Roy, Anupama, Gendered Citizenship, Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 2005.
15. Sawer, M., Tremblay, M., and Trimble, L. (Eds.), RepresentingWomen in Parliament: A
Comparative Study, Routledge, New York, 2006.
16. Singer, Wendy, A Constituency Suitable for Ladies and Other Social Histories of Indian
Election, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2006.
17. Wheeler, Marjorie Spruill, One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Women, New Sage
Press, Troutdale, 1995.
4th
Semester
MPS-401: Research Methodology
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10)
UNIT-I: Scientific Method
The Nature of Scientific Method and its application to Social Research (4 classes) -
Problems of objectivity; (2classes) The Research Process; Ethical considerations in
Social Research.(4classes) UNIT-II: The Research Problems
Review of Literature ;( 2 classes) Formulating Research Problems ;(3 days) Hypothesis:
meaning, importance of hypothesis, Role of hypothesis in social research, types of Research
Design: (2 classes)Types of Research Design; Sampling: Types of Sampling.(2 classes)
UNIT-III: Methods of Data Collection
Observation: Participant & Non-Participant; Case Study; Content Analysis; Interview method. (
2 classes)
UNIT-IV: Tools of Research
Construction of Schedule & Questionnaire; ( 3 classes)Mailed questionnaire; 3classes Raport
Building;(2 classes) Pre Testing & Pilot Study; Scaling Technique: Bogardus, Thurstone, Likert
and Guttman scales.(4 classes) Qualitative & Quantitative data analysis and Report writing
MPS-402: Foreign Policy of Major Powers
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10)
Unit-I:
The Nature of Foreign Policy and Theoretical Analysis
Foreign Policy during Cold War, Post-Cold War and in New World Order
Unit –II:
US Foreign Policy: From Isolationism to Containment
US and South Asia
US and Middle East
US and China
Emerging Trends in US Foreign Policy and Asian Pivot Unit III: CHINA
Determinants of Chinese Foreign Policy
Sino-US Rapprochement
Sino – Russian Relations
Emerging trends in Chinese Foreign Policy Unit IV: RUSSIA
Major parameters in Russian Foreign Policy
Russia and the United States
Emerging trends in Russian Foreign policy
Russia and China
Elective, MPS-402: India and the World
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10)
UNIT-I
Evolution of India's Foreign Policy
a) Cold War and non-alignment
b) End of Cold War and Bipolarity
c) Regionalism
d) Nuclearization
UNIT-2
India and the International Economy
a) Traditional Foreign Economic Policy
b) Liberalization and Globalization: Imperativesand Critical Evaluation
c) India and the W.T.O with special reference toTRIPS, TRIMS and Social Clauses
d) Relations with IMF; World Bank
UNIT-3
India's Security: Policy, Perspectives, Problems.
a) Changing Security Perspectives: form Traditional to non Traditional
b) Internal and External linkages
c) Defence Policy- Parameters, Evolution, Problems
d) India and the Disarmament Regimes- N.P.T, C.T.B.T, Missile Technology Regime,
Chemical and Biological Weapons Regimes.
e) Nuclear Policy; the debate on nuclearization.
II India's security: Transnational Dimensions.
a) Ethno-cultural
b) Demographic
c) Terrorism
d) Narcotics
e) Ecological.
UNIT-4
India and the Post-Cold War world
a) USA, Russia, China, EU
b) India and its South Asian Neighbours
e) Central Asia, Afghanistan and West Asia.
MPS-403: Advanced Political Theory
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10)
Unit-I:
The nature and use of political theory, debate on the decline or Resurgence of political theory.
The Liberal and Marxist Approaches to Political Analysis Unit-II:
Contemporary Liberalism: John Rawls, Robert Nozick
Freedom , alienation Unit-III:
Civil society
Post modernism Unit-IV:
Feminism
Environmentalism
MPS-404: Social and Political Movements in India
Total Marks = 50 (End Term-40 + Internal-10)
Unit-I: Social and Political Movements: Its Meaning and Relationship with Conventional Politics Major Causes and Societal Conditions for the Rise and Decline of Social and Political Movements. Methods of studying societal and Political Movements
Unit-II: Role of Ideology in political movements
Various theories of political movements Relations between Political Movements and Political Consciousness
Unit-III: Peasants and farmers movements Women’s movements
Unit-IV: Backward classes and Dalit Movements Environmental Movements
MPS-405: DISSERTATION
Total Marks = 50
MPS-406: PRESENTATION AND GRAND VIVA-VOCE
Total Marks = 50
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Book Recommended
MPS-401
1. Blackburn, R. Edited, Ideology and Social Science, London, Fontana, 1972.
2. Blablock, H.M., An Introduction to Social Research, Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice Hall,
1970.
3. Blondel, J., Thinking Politically, London, Wildwood House, 1976.
4. Bryman, A., Quantity and Quality in Social Research, London, Unwin Hyman. 1988.
5. Chalmers, A.F., Science and Its Fabrication, Milton Keynes, Open University Press, 1990.
6. Crick, B., In Defence of Politics (4th Edn.), Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1993.
7. Evera, Stephen Van, Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science, Ithaca, Cornell
8. University Press, 1997.
9. Gellner, E. Relativism and the Social Science, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985.
10. Giddens, A. Profiles and Critiques in Social Theory, London. Macmillan,1982.
11. Pitl, J. edited. Theories of Explanation. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1988.
12. Ryan, A., The Philosophy of Social Sciences, London, Macmillan, 1970.
13. Ryan, A., edited, The Philosophy of Social Explanation. Oxford, Oxford University Press,
1973.
14. Warwick, Donald P., and M. Bulmer edited, Social Research in Developing Countries: Surveys
and Consciousness in the Third World, Delhi, Research Press, 1993.
MPS-402
1. Almond, Gabriel, The American People and Foreign Policy (New York, 1950)
2. Aron, Raymond, The Imperial Republic: The United States and the World (New Delhi, 1974).
3. Baral, J.K., Pentagon and American Foreign Policy-Making (New Delhi, 1987).
4. Bell, Coral, The Diplomacy of Détente (New Delhi, 1977).
5. Brezezinski, Z., Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the 21st Century (USA, Charles
Sribners Sons, 1993).
6. Fairbank, John K., China Revisited (London, 1974)
7. Gordon, Bernard K., New Directions for American Policy in Asia (London, 1990)
8. Kissinger, Henry, American Policy- a Global View (Singapore, 1982).
9. Nathan ,James A. And James K. Oliver, United States Foreign policy and world order (Boston
1985)
10. Palmer , Norman D. , The US and India ( new York, 1984)
11. Starr, John Bryan, The future of US-China Relations (New York, 1981)
12. Tahir-Kheli, Shirin, The United states and Pakistan (New York, 1982)
13. Chan Gerald, Chinese Perspective on International Relations, New Zealand,
14. Houndsmill,Macmillan University Press, 1999.
15. Cronin Patrick M. From Globalism to Regionalism: Sew Perspectives on US Foreign and
16. Defence Policies, Washington, National Defence University Press, 1993.
17. Ellison Herbert J. Japan and The Pacific Quadrille: The Major Powers in East Asia, Boulder,
Westview Press, 1987.
18. Epstein William, The Last Chance: Nuclear Proliferation and Arms Control, New York, Free
Press, 1976.
19. Gaddis Johan Lewis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Post War American
National Security Policy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990.
20. Gutjahr Lothar. German Foreign and Defence Policy after Unification, Pinter Publishers, 1994.
21. Haas Richard N, Intervention: The Use of American Military Forces in the Post Cold War
World, New York, Carnegie Endowment of International Peace, 1998.
22. John Dumbrell, American Foreign Policy: Carter to Clinton, Houndsmill, Macmillan, 1997.
23. Kanet Roger E and Alexander V. Kozhemiakin. The Foreign Policy of Russian Federation,
Houndsmill. Macmillan, 1997.
24. Larrabee Stephen. The Two German States and European Security, Houndsmill, Macmillan,
1999.
25. Masahide Shibusawa. edited, Japan and the Asian Pacific Region, London, Croom Helm, 1984.
26. McNamara Robert. Out of the Cold, Bloomsbury, 1990.
27. Mendelson Sarah E., Changing Course, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1998.
28. Sutter Robert G., Shaping China's Future in World Affairs: The Role of U.S. Boulder,
Westview, 1996.
29. Whetten Lawrence L., Germany East and West: Conflicts, Collaboration and Confrontations,
New Jersey, Princeton University. Press, 1980.
30. Zwick Peter. Soviet Foreign Relations: Process and Policy. New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 1990.
MPS-402 (Elective)
1. Ahmed Imtiaz., State and Foreign Policy: India's Role in South Asia,Delhi, Vikas Publishing
House Ltd, 1993.
2. Bandyopadhyaya Jayanta, The Making of India's Foreign Policy.New Delhi, Allied, 1970.
3. Bradnock Robert. India's Foreign Policy Since 1971.London., Royal Institute for International
Affairs, 1990.
4. Brands H.W. India and the United States: The Cold Peace.Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1990.
5. Choudhury G.W. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Major Powers.New York., The Free
Press, 1975.
6. Cohen, Stephen P., and Richard L. Park. India: Emergent Power? New York: Crane, Russak
and Company, 1978.
7. Damodaran, AX and U.S. Rajpai. eds Indian Foreign Policy: The Indira Gandhi years. New
Delhi, Radiant, 1990.
8. Ganguly Sivaji. U. S. Policy Toward South Asia.Boulder, Westview,1990.
9. Ganguly Sumit. The Origins of War in South Asia,Boulder, Westview, 1986.
10. Gordon Sandy and Srephert Henningham. (eds.) India Looks East An Emerging Power and Its
Asia-Pacific Neighbours.The Australian National University. Strategic and Defence Studies
Centre, 1995.
11. Gould Harold A. and Sumit Ganguly, eds. The Hope and the Reality: U.S - Indian Relations
from Roosevelt to Bush.Boulder. Westview, 1992.
12. Harrison Selig S. and K. Subrahmanyam. eds. Superpower Rivalry in the Indian Ocean: Indian
and American Perspectives. New York, Oxford University Press, 1989.
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