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POSTGRADUATE COURSES OF STUDIES IN POLITICAL SCIENCE OF SIDO KANHU MURMU UNIVERSITY, DUMKA ON THE PATTERN OF CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM INTRODUCED FROM SESSION 2017-18 ONWARDS 1 Regulation and Syllabus for M. A. Political Science as per CBCS (Implemented from session 2015-2017) The M.A. Political Science course will consist of four Semesters, each Semesters of six month duration, as detailed in the University Regulation. The course structure will be as follows: Semester-I 1st Paper : PSC F01 Foundation 2nd Paper : PSC C02 Core Course 1 3rd Paper : PSC C03 Core Course 2 4th Paper : PSC C04 Core Course 3 Semester-II 5th Paper : PSC S05 Skill Development 6th Paper : PSC C06 Core Course 4 7th Paper :PSC C07 Core Course 5 8th Paper : PSC C08 Core Course 6 Semester-III 9th Paper : PSC A09 Open Elective 10th Paper : PSC C10 Core Course 7 11th Paper : PSC C11 Core Course 8 12th Paper : PSC C12 Core Course 9 Semester-IV Elective A: International Relations, Organization and Law 13th Paper : PSC E(A)13 Elective 14th Paper : PSC E(A)14 Elective 15th Paper : PSC E(A)15 Elective 16nd Paper : PSC D16 Dissertation Semester-IV Elective B: Government and Politics of India 13th Paper : PSC E(B)13 Elective 14th Paper : PSC E(B)14 Elective 15th Paper : PSC E(B)15 Elective 16nd Paper : PSC D16 Dissertation 2 Each paper will consist of nine questions, each carrying 14 marks. The examinees shall be required to answer five questions including question number 01 which shall be compulsory. Question number 01 shall contain seven short type questions, each having 2 marks. The University Examination of each paper shall be of three hours duration and marks in each written paper would be 70. FIRST SEMESTER Paper I SUBJECT NATURE OF TEACHING NO. OF CODE THE COURSE COURSE CONTENT HOURS CREDITS: Sl. No. PSCF 01 FOUNDATION. (TOTAL 05) Candidates shall have to answer Question 1 containing 7 short answer type As specified compulsory questions of 2 marks each and any four other questions out of in regulation total of nine questions 01. Characteristics of the Indian Constitution 02. Federalism in India 03 Political parties: definition, kinds, political party system. 04. State, Sovereignty 05. Democracy 06. Liberty equality and justice 07. Political System : Easton and Almond 08. Political culture and political socialization 09. Constitutionalism 10. Pressure groups Suggested Readings: 1. S.P. Varma, Modern Political Theory, Vikas, New Delhi 1983. 2. Jain & Faria – Principles of Political Theory 3. G.A. Almond and G.B. Powell, Jr. Comparative Politics Today A World View, 7th end., New York, London, Harper/Collins, 2000. 4. J.C. Johari, Comparative Political Theory : New Dimensions, Basic Concepts and Major Trends, New Delhi, Sterling, 1987. 5. lh0ch0 xsuk] rqyukRed jktuhfr 6. D.D. Basu, An Introduction to the Constitution of India, New Delhi Prentice Hall 1994. 7. Iqbal Narain (ed). State Politics in India, Meerut, Meenakshi Prakashan 1967 8. Subhash Kashyap - Hamara Samvidhan 9. J. C. Johari - Bhartiya Shashan aur Rajniti 3 FIRST SEMESTER PAPER II SUBJECT NATURE OF MODERN INDIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT TEACHING NO. OF CODE THE COURSE HOURS CREDITS: Sl. No. PSCC 02 CORE COURSE CONTENT (TOTAL 05) Candidates shall have to answer Question 1 containing 7 short answer type As specified compulsory questions of 2 marks each and any four other questions out of in regulation total of nine questions 01. The Indian renaissance :- Raja Ram Mohan Roy. Swami Vivekanand (political and social ideas) 02. Gopal Krishna Gokhle:- political ideas, liberalism 03. Bal Gangadhar Tilak;- nationalism , swadeshi and swarajya. 04. V.D. Savarkar:- Hindu nationalism. 05. Mahatma Gandhi:- Satyagraha, Views on state, Relevance of Gandhism. 06. Ram manohar Lohia:- Sapt kranti, Chaukhambha Rajya. 07. J.P. Narayan:- Sampurna kranti, Partyless democracy. 08. (a) M.N. Roy:- Radical Humanism. (b)Deen Dayal Upadhyaya:- Integral Humanism. 09. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad:- Political ideas. 10. B,R. Ambedkar:- critique of caste system, political ideas, comparative study of Gandhi and Ambedakar. Suggested Readings: 1. V. P. Verma, Modern Indian Political thought, Agra, Lakshmi Narain Agrawal,1974 2. J. P. Suda, Indian Political Thought 3. U. N. Ghoshal, A History of Indian Political Ideas, London, Oxford University Press, 1959. 4. V. R. Mehta, Foundations of Indian Political thought, New Delhi, Manohar, 1992. 5. Bidyut Chakrabarty, Rajendra Kumar Pandey, - Modern Indian Political Thought, New Delhi, Sage, 2009 6. Ian Cordozo, Prakash Chandra – Modern Indian Political Thought, UBS Publishers, 2001 4 7. P.C. Jain, A. K. Rastogi – vk/kqfud Hkkjrh; lkekftd ,oa jktuhfrd fpUru] jk/kk izdk’ku] 2005 8. Virender Sharma – vk/kqfud Hkkjrh; jktuhfrd fopkj/kkjk,¡] ubZ fnYyh] ;wfuoflZVh ifCyds’kUl] 2007 9. V.P. Verma – vk/kqfud Hkkjrh; jktuhfrd ,oa lkekftd fpUru FIRST SEMESTER Paper III SUBJECT NATURE OF MODERN POLITICAL THEORIES TEACHING NO. OF CODE THE COURSE HOURS CREDITS: Sl. No. PSCC 03 CORE COURSE CONTENT (TOTAL 05) Candidates shall have to answer Question 1 containing 7 short answer type As specified compulsory questions of 2 marks each and any four other questions out of in regulation total of nine questions 01. Nature of significance of Political Theory 02. Classical Tradition: Meaning, Characteristics, Importance & Limitations. 03. Modern Tradition: Meaning, Characteristics, Importance & Limitations. 04. Behaviouralism & Post Behaviouralism 05. Debate about the decline of Political Theory 06. Nature & Revival of Political Theory 07. Recent trends in Political Theory: Communitarianism and Multiculturalism 08. Green Political Theory Suggested Readings: 1. A Gotaman (ed) Multiculturalism, Princeton New Delhi, Princeton University Press 1994. 2. I Hutcheon, The Politics of Post Modernism, London & N. Y., Routledge 1989. 3. E. Said, Orientalism, Chatto and Windos, London’ 1978. 4. V. Bryson, Feminist Political Theory, Macmillan, 1997. 5. S.E. Barker, Principles of Social and Political Theory. 6. S.P. Varma, Modern Political Theory, Vikas, New Delhi 1983. 7. Jain & Faria – Principles of Political Theory 8 Kenneth Scheffer, Green Politics, Bear & Co., 1986 9. Andrew Dobson, Green Political Thought, Routledge, 2000 FIRST SEMESTER PAPER IV SUBJECT NATURE OF MODERN POLITICAL TEACHING NO. OF Sl. No. CODE THE COURSE IDEOLOGIS HOURS CREDITS: PSCC 04 CORE (TOTAL 05) Candidates shall have to answer Question 1 containing 7 short answer As type compulsory questions of 2 marks each and any four other questions specified in out of total of nine questions regulation 01. Nationalism 5 02. Liberalism 03 Marxism 05. Socialism 04. Neo liberalism 06. Neo Marxism 07. Feminism 08. Post modernism Suggested Readings: 1. George H. Sabine- A History of Political Theory, Oxford & I.B.H., Publishing, New Delhi, 1979, 2. C.l . Wayper – Political Thought. 3.William Ebenstein – Modern political Thought : The great Issues, new York , Holt, Rinchart & Winston, 1960 4. Political Thought – J.C. Johari. 5. Bhargava, R and Acarya A(eds.)., Political Theory : An Introduction, Pearson Longman, New Delhi 6. O.P.Gauba., An Introduction to Political Theory, MacMillan, New Delhi 7. Shorten, A. (2008) ‘Nation and State’, in McKinnon, C. (ed.) Issues in Political Theory, New York: Oxford University Press. 8. Sen, A. (2003) ‘Freedom Favours Development,’ in Dahl, R., Shapiro, I. and Cheibub, A. J. (eds.) The Democracy Sourcebook. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. 9. McKinnon, Catriona.,(eds.) ‘ Issues in Political theory’, Oxford University Press, New York 10. David Held., ‘Political Theory and Modern State’, Polity, London , 1994 11. Gyan Singh Sandhu., ‘Political Theory’, Delhi University, 1988. 12. Agrawal N.N., “ Principles of Political Science”, S.Chand & Co, N.Delhi 13. Neera Desai and Usha Thakkar, Women in Indian Society : National Book Trust, New Delhi 2003. 14. Niroj Sinha : Women in Indian Politics : Gyan Publishing House, New Delhi 2000. 15. Nivedita Menon, Gender and Politics in India, New York OUP, 1999 16. Sadhna Arya, Nivedita Menon, Ginni Loknita (Ed.) - Narivadi Rajniti: Sangharsh evam Mudde SECOND SEMESTER PAPER SUBJECT NATURE OF THE Academic writing & Communication skill TEACHING NO. OF V CODE COURSE COURSE CONTENT HOURS CREDITS: Sl. No. PSCS 05 SKILL (TOTAL 05) DEVELOPMENT Candidates shall have to answer Question 1 containing 7 short answer type As specified compulsory questions of 2 marks each and any four other questions out of in regulation 6 total of nine questions 01. Academic writing: meaning, types and importance 02. Writing synopsis 03 Report writing 04. Writing Abstract 05. Writing Conference Paper 06. Referencing 07. Writing Dissertations 08. Writing letters, applications 09. Preparing bio data, curriculum vitae (CV) Suggested Readings: 1. On Writing well: The classic Guide to writing Nonfiction-William Zinsses Collins 2. On Creative Writing- Lind A. Lavid Independent Publishing 3. Bird by Bird- some Instructions on writing and life- Anne Lamott- Anchor 4. The Elements of style: 18 Essential Rules of Good writing in English strunk William Jr. Import 5. On writing – Jorge luis Borges, Penguin 6. On writing – Charles Bukowski – Kindle 7. Gar on language and writing – Ruth Bader Ginsburg – Import 8. Creative writing for English as foreign language lerness- a Course Book Deebrah Roundy- Import. 9. Research Methodology 10. P.V. Young, Scientific Social Surveys and Research 11. Good and Hatt, Methods in Social Research. SECOND SEMESTER PAPER VI SUBJECT NATURE OF INDIAN GOVERNMENT & POLITICS TEACHING Sl. No. CODE THE COURSE COURSE CONTENT HOURS PSCC 04 CORE Candidates shall have to answer Question 1 containing 7 short answer type As specified compulsory questions of 2 marks each and any four other questions out of total of in regulation nine questions 01. Background of the constituent assembly, Composition and working. 02. Constitution as an instrument of social change & justice: Fundamental Rights and directive principles of state policy. 03. Union Government: President, Prime Minister and Parliament. 04 State Government: Governor and Chief Minister. 05. Supreme court;- Appointment and removal of judges, Judicial Activism & P.I.L 06. Electoral Reforms: Role of election commission, corrupt practices.