Subject : Master of Arts in Political Science
SEMESTER I
The First Semester will have five papers. All papers are compulsory.
Paper- I Ancient and Mediaeval Western Political Thought
1. Plato Text: Republic*
Ideal State, Justice, Education, Communism
2. Aristotle Text: Politics*
Aristotle’s method, Teleology, Notion of State, Justice, Slavery and Revolution
3. (A) Cicero: Natural Law, State
(B) Introduction to Medieval Thought: Theory of Two Swords.
4. Thomas Aquinas: Theory of Knowledge and Law.
5. Marsiglio of Padua: Conciliar Movement, State
Books Recommended
*The student is expected to consult relevant portions of the Republic and Politics
Paper-II Comparative Politics: Concepts and Models
1. Comparative Politics: Meaning, nature and scope.
2. Approaches to the study of Comparative Politics: Behavioural, System, Structural-Functional and Marxist approach.
3. Bases of classification of political systems: models of political system: Traditional, modern, liberal- democratic, authoritarian and populist.
4. Political Ideology: Meaning and characteristics, debate on the decline of ideology.
5. Political Culture: Concepts, determinants and types, Indian political culture, contemporary trends, political culture and development.
Paper- III - International Relations: Theory and Major Concepts
1. International Relations as a discipline: Emergence and evolution.
2. Theories of International Relations: Realist, Idealist, Scientific, Marxist and Liberal.
3. Major concepts: Geo-politics, national interest, national power and ideology.
4. Contemporary Dimensions – Liberalization and Globalization.
5. Evolving Inter-State System: Nation-State and Non-State Actors.
6. Non-Alignment: Crisis of relevance.
7. Conflict and conflict resolution.
Paper – IV - Indian Political System: Theoretical and Structural Aspects
1. Forces Shaping the Indian Political System.
2. Evolving nature of the Indian political system.
3. Ideals of the Indian political system.
4. Fundamental Rights, Fundamental Duties, Directive Principles of State Policy.
5. Parliamentary Democracy in India.
6. Structure and Functioning of Governmental System: Union level.
7. Evolving nature of Indian federalism.
Paper V - Social and Political Thought of Ancient and Mediaeval India
1. Dharmashstra, Arthshastra and Nitishastra traditions in India.
2. Major ideas of Manu, Kautilya and Shukra.
3. Political ideas in Shantiparva (Mahabharat) and Ramayan.
4. Budhhism and Jainism.
5. Major tenets of Islam and Sikhism.
SEMESTER II
Paper-VI - Modern Western Political Thought
| 1. Machiavelli : | Prince, *Discourses, Human nature, Religion, Ethics and Politics; Child of Renaissance. |
| 2. Hobbes : | Scientific Materialism, Theory of Social Contract, Sovereignty, and Individualism. |
| 3. Locke : | Natural Law, natural Rights, Social Contract, Liberalism. |
| 4. Rousseau : | Social Contract, General Will. |
| 5. Bentham: | Utilitarianism, Liberty. |
| 6. J.S Mill : | Liberty, *Representative Government. |
| 7. Hegel : | Dialectics, State. |
| 8. Green : | Theory of Rights, State. |
| 9. Marx : | Dialectical Materialism, Historical Materialism, Class Struggle, State and Revolution |
• The students are expected to familiarize themselves with relevant portion of the texts recommended (“The Prince” and “Liberty”).
Paper-VII - Comparative Political Process
1) Political development: meaning, features and indicators and decay.
2) Elite: concept, typology and role.
3) Political parties: nature, structures, functions and varieties.
4) Pressure groups: Meaning, nature and strategies of functioning. Role of pressure groups in different political systems. Pressure groups in Indian politics.
5) Voting behaviour and public opinion in the Indian context.
Paper-VIII - International Relations: Contemporary Challenges and Issues
1) Challenges of post-Bi-polar world.
2) Unilateralism.
3) Role of the UN: Contemporary challenges.
4) Regional Organizations: EU, ASEAN and SAARC.
5) Disarmament and arms control, NPT, CTBT
6) Non-traditional security threats
7) Emerging issues: Feminism, Environmentalism
Paper-IX - Indian Political System: Processes and Problems
1) Party System.
2) Pressure Groups: Business, Farming and Professional.
3) Mass Movements: Dalit, women and environment.
4) Electoral Behaviour & Electoral Reforms.
5) Bureaucracy and its Role, Nation building in India: problems and prospects.
6) Problems of the Indian Political System: Linguism, Regionalism, Communalism, Terrorism, Casteism, Corruption and Criminalisation.
Paper-X - Social and Political Thought of Modern India
1) Raja Ram Mohan Roy.
2) Dayanand Saraswati.
3) Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
4) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
5) Aurobindo Ghosh
6) Madan Mohan Malviya
7) Vir Savarkar
8) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
9) Bhim Rao Ambedkar
10) M.K.Gandhi: Hind Swaraj
11) J.L. Nehru.
12) M.N.Roy
SEMESTER III
Note: There will be two compulsory papers and three optional papers in both the IIIrd and IVth Semesters.
Paper XI - Contemporary Political Theory (Compulsory)
1) Recent Trends in Political Theory: An Overview
2) Behaviouralism and Post-Behaviouralism: David Easton
3) Decline of Political Theory
4) End of Ideology and its Impact on Political theory
5) Liberal Political Theory and its Critique: Macpherson
6) Theory of Justice Revisited: John Rawls
7) Importance of the Political: Hannah Arendt
8) Limits to Politics: Oakeshot
Paper XII -Theory of Public Administration: Concepts and Issues (Compulsory) DDN
1) Classical Public Administration: Politics and Administration, Administrative States, New Public Administration.
2) Impact of Liberalization on Administration, Ecology of Public Administration, Development Administration
3) Classical and Modern Approaches: Behavioural, Systems and Structural Functional and Marxist (Particular Reference to the Contributions of Wilson, Taylor, Simon and Riggs)
4) Max Weberian model of bureaucracy, Organization Theories.
Group -A Ideologies
Paper XIII- Indian Feminist Perspective-I
1) Historical background: Status of Women in Indian Dharmashastras with special reference to Manu Smriti, Yajanvakya Smriti, Parasar Smriti, Kautilya’s Arthashastra.
2) Philosophical background: Challenges to Western Feminism in the writings of Gayatri Spivak and Chandra Mohanty.
3) Nature of Indian Feminism: Its Basic tenets.
Paper XIV - Third World Political Theory
1) Nature and Content of Third World Political Theory
2) Gandhi
3) Mao Zedong
4) Frantz Fanon
5) Che Guevara
6) Amilcar Cabral
7) Kwame Nkrumah
8) Julius Nyerere
Paper-XV- Political Thought After World War- I
1) Nature of Political Thought in the Post War Period
2) Scientific Approach and Trends in Political Analysis
3) Liberalism: Hayek, Rawls, Popper, Laski, Russell, Oakshott, Hannah Arendt
4) New-Freudianism: Eric Fromm
5) Existentialists Jean Paul Sartre.
Group B -Government and Politics
Paper XIII- Government and Politics of the States in India
1) Framework for the Study of State Politics
2) Relevance of the Study of State Politics in India
3) Relation between National & State Politics in India
4) Determinants of State Politics: Socio-Economic & Constitutional Framework: Structure of the State Government Executive, legislature and Judiciary
5) Emerging Trends in State Politics: Study of the three following states with particular reference to: Political Developments, Political Parties, Government Formation, Electoral Behaviour, Factionalism, Autonomy etc.
6) Uttar Pradesh
7) J & K
Paper XIV - Structure of Urban Government in India DDN
1) Local Government: Theoretical framework, Causes of Urbanization
2) Growth of urban local government in India
3) Structure and functions of urban government: Municipal Corporation, Municipality, Town Area Committee, Notified Area Authority, Cantonment Boards.
4) Bombay model of urban government
5) Kolkata model of urban government.
Paper XV - Nation Building and National Integration in India
1) Nation-Building in India, theoretical, historical and cultural perspective- National Movement
2) Impediments to National Integration Communalism, Regionalism, Linguism, Castism, Nationalism and Globalization.
3) Role of Planning and Bureaucracy.
4) Positive Efforts Towards National Integration
5) Problems and Prospect.
OR
Nation Building in the Third World – I
1) Nation and Nation Building: Meaning and Concept
2) Growth of Nation-States: Historical Perspectives
3) Formation of Nation-States in the Third World:
4) Africa: Nature of European Dominance, Problems of National Identity
5) Latin America: American Hegemony and Quest For Freedom.
GROUP C - International Relations
Paper XIII-Contemporary Issues in International Law - I
1) Nature of International Law
2) Sources
3) International Legal Personality and Recognition
4) International Human Rights Law
5) Territional Sovereignty.
OR
Paper XIII -International Organization - I
The course examines the role of the International Organization in contemporary global political system.
1) Approaches to that study of International Organization.
2) Overview of the evolution of International Organizations: The Historical Context.
3) The United Nations Organization: Structure and function. (Institutions / Political Processes).
4) The U.N. and the Decolonization process.
Paper- XIV Indian Foreign Policy - I
1) Genesis and foundation of Indian foreign policy: principles and objectives
2) Emerging patterns of post-war world politics: India’s perspectives
3) Political process and foreign policy
4) India and the major powers: USA, China, Britain, France, and Russian Republic
5) India’s perspectives
(i) Disarmament and arms control: NPT, CTBT etc
(ii) Globalisation and WTO, Kyoto Protocol and environmental protection
Paper – XV Conflict Resolution & Peace: Pedagogy & Approaches
1) Anatomy & Sources of Conflict
2) Positive Peace: Structural & Cultural Violence
3) Conflict Handling Mechanisms: Conflict Suppression, Conflict Management, Conflict Resolution, Reconciliation
4) Gandhian Approach & its offshoots: Satyagrah, Jai Jagat
5) Confidence Building Measures: India –Pakistan as a Showcase
Group - D Comparative Governments
Paper XIII: Government and Politics in Japan
1) Constitutional Framework – New Constitution
2) Role of the Emperor
3) Structure and Process of the Government – Prime Minister, Cabinet, Legislature & Judiciary
4) Bureaucracy & Local Government
5) Political Parties and Pressure Groups
Paper XIV: Government and Politics in Russia
1) The Constitutional Development
2) Institutional Structure in the Political System: The Presidency; Federal Assembly; Judiciary.
3) Party System
4) The Electoral Process
5) Nationalism, Regionalism and Federal System in Russia
6) Economic Transition and the Role of the Market
Paper-XV Government and Politics in Pakistan
1) Genesis of Pakistan
2) Constitutional Development
3) Structure of Government: Executive, Legislative, Judiciary.
4) Political Parties
5) Nation Building
6) Problems and Democracy
Group E - South Asian Studies
Paper-XIII Government and politics of South Asia - I
(India, Pakistan and Bangladesh)
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) Army in the politics of Pakistan and Bangladesh
(ii) Democratic and monarchical systems
Paper-XIV Foreign policies of South Asian states- I
(India, Pakistan and Bangladesh)
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) Kashmir
(ii) Rann of Kutch
(iii) Farakka
(iv) Ethnic conflicts
Paper-XV Nation Building In South Asia-I
(India, Pakistan and Bangladesh)
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
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
8) 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
8) 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.
Group A – Ideologies
Paper- XVIII Indian Feminist Perspective-II
1) Indian Renaissance and emergence of feminist thought in India
2) Contributions of some modern Indian thinkers on women: Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Swami Vivekananda, Shri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi and Vinobha Bhave
3) Great women of India: Annie Beasant, Sister Nivedita, Sarojini Naidu, Aruna Asaf Ali.
4) Women and Ecology: Contributions of Vandana Shiva and Bina Agarwal.
Paper XIX - Political Ideologies
1) Liberalism: Classical Phase
2) Marxism: Marx and Engel’s
3) Social Democracy
4) Libertarianism
5) Fascism.
Paper- XX Political Thought After World War-II
1) The critique of Bourgeois Civilization: Marcuse and Macpherson.
2) Marxist currents: Mao-Tse-Tung, Guevara, Fanon, Althusser, Poulentzas
3) Indian Contribution: Gandhi and Nehru.
Group B - Government and Politics
Paper XVIII Panchayati Raj in India
1) Evolution of Panchayati Raj in India: Pre-Independence
2) The Status of Panchayati Raj: Legal and Constitutional provisions regarding structures of Panchayati Raj
3) 73rd Constitutional Amendment
4) Empowerment of the marginalized sections of the society.
5) Rural Development
6) Problems: autonomy, finance, accountability, peoples, representative bureaucracy relationship
Paper- XIX Process of Urban Government in India DDN
1) Relation between the deliberative and executive wings: Bombay and Calcutta models.
2) Finance of urban government
3) Relationship with the state government.
4) Electoral politics, role of political parties and pressure groups.
5) Urban development policy. Programmes of urban development in respect to housing, health, sanitation, electricity, water supply education, transportation, slum improvement and environment protection.
6) Improving city government.
Paper XX- Federalism in India
1) Background, Evolution and Nature of Federalism in India
2) Developments in Indian Federalism since 1947
3) Centre-State Relations with reference to Emergency and Financial Powers
4) Demand for State Autonomy
5) Sarkaria Commission Report: An Analysis of Inter-State Councils
6) Regional Parties and their Impact on the Federal Process
7) Recent Trends and Prospects.
OR
Nation Building in the Third World II
1) Asia: Patterns of Dominance and Resurgence Forces and Factors for the Development of National Struggle.
2) Impulses of Nation Building:
3) Impediments to Nation-Building
4) Role of Multinational Corporations and Foreign Aid.
5) Contemporary Challenges: Self Determination and Ethno-Nationalism.
GROUP C - International Relations
Paper- XVIII Contemporary Issues in International law-II
1) Territorial Sovereignty
2) Jurisdiction and Immunities from Jurisdiction
3) State Responsibility
4) International Environmental Law
5) Pacific Settlement of Disputes
6) The Use of Force
7) International Security
OR
Paper - XVIII International Organization - II
1) The theory of UN Collective Security: UN Security efforts during and after the cold war.
2) The UN Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs.
3) The UN and the eco-development debate.
4) Regional Organization and the UN.
Paper XIX Indian Foreign Policy - II
1) India and her neighbours: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka
2) Regional focus of India with special reference to Look East policy
(i) SAARC
(ii) ASEAN
(iii) EU
(iv) The Commonwealth
(v) Central Asian Republics
3) The ‘Sleeping Buddha’ and beyond: Evolving India’s nuclear doctrine
4) The Gujral Doctrine and after: issue of peace and security in the Indian subcontinent
Paper XX Conflict Resolution & Peace: Issues & Challenges
1) Challenges of 21ST Century
2) Anatomy of Terrorism
3) Managing Ethnic Conflicts Peacefully
4) Ecological & Environmental Conflict
5) Human Security
6) Women and Peace
7) Role of Education, Religion & Media
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
8) 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
8) 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?
GROUP G - Political Thought
Paper XVIII Ancient Indian Political Thought and Institutions-II
1) State: Formation of the State: Saptang Theory, Power and functions.
2) Nature of State Authority.
3) Kingship: Origin, Power and functions, nature of authority: limitations: Council of Ministers and King; Taxation; Coronation.
4) Law and Justice: Sources of law, supremacy of law; courts organization and Judges; judicial administration.
5) International law and politics: principles and means of diplomacy; international agencies, Rajdoot, war and peace; treaties
Paper XIX Medieval Indian political Thought and Institutions-II
1) Monarchy: religious movements, social rifts, religious schisms and royal supremacy; royal absolutism: limitations of the king and his authority, feudalism and monarchy; secular aspects of the monarchy; temporal and spiritual sovereignty of kingship.
2) Law and justice: sources of law; schools of Muslim law; justices and moral welfare; secular orientation of law and justice.
3) Government: pattern of governmental structure, religious and political behaviour of government, departments of government.
4) Political economy: property rights, taxation, land settlement, rural and urban economy, interpretations of hindu scriptures regarding economic issues.
5) Non-Islamic polity of medieval India: Maratha polity, Sikh polity, Rajput polity.
Paper XX Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi-II
1) Structure of non-violent State, stateless democracy, state as means of sovereignty, parliamentary democracy, elections and franchise, majority and minority functions of non-violent state.
2) Gandhian political ideals: property right and trusteeship, the socio-economic and political structure and functioning, rights and duties, non-violent nationalism, foreign policy of a non-violent state.
3) From Gram Rajya to Ram Rajya.
4) Gandhism Today.
Group H -Human Rights
Paper XVIII-Human rights and the United Nations
1) The UN Charter and Human Rights
2) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, drafting and adoption of human rights.
3) UN agencies and human rights with particular emphasis on ECOSOC, UNESCO and ILO
4) Human rights and international conventions/covenants-role of OSCE, OAU, OAS, EU etc.
5) The Human Rights Commission and beyond: Role of the UN
Paper XIX-Human rights in India
1) Human rights and the Indian Constitution
2) Human rights agencies: structure, organization and functions
(i) National Human Rights Commission
(ii) National Commission for Women
(iii) Special Commissions for weaker sections-SC,ST and OBC
3) Case studies: Jammu and Kashmir, Gujarat, Punjab and North-East India
Paper XX Human rights, development and environmental issues
1). Human rights and development: Locating the development discourse
(i).Sustainable development as a prelude to sustainable society
2). Environmental issues and international initiatives
(i) The Earth Summits: Rio de Janeiro and after
(ii) Global warming: beyond the Kyoto Protocol
(iii) International movements vis-à-vis environmental issues
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