November 13, 2016

Political Theory and Indian Politics

Political Theory and Indian Politics is the Paper I of Political Science and International Relations optional for Civil Service Mains exam.

Political Theory

  1. Meaning and approaches
  2. Theories of state
    • Liberal
    • Non liberal
    • Marxist
    • Pluralist
    • Post colonial
    • Feminist
  3. Justice
    • Conceptions of Justice
    • Rawl's theory of Justice
      • It's communitarian critiques
  4. Equality
    • Social
    • Political
    • Economic
    • Relationship between equality and freedom
    • Affirmative action
  5. Rights
    • Meaning and Theories
    • Different kinds of rights
    • Concept of Human rights
  6. Democracy
    • Classic and Contemporary theory
    • Different models of democracy
      • Representative
      • Participatory 
      • Deliberative
  7. Concept of
    • Power
    • Hegemony
    • Ideology
    • Legitimacy
  8. Political Ideologies
    • Liberalism
    • Socialism
    • Fascism
    • Gandhism
    • Feminism
  9. Indian Political Thought
    • Dharmasasthra
    • Arthasasthra
    • Buddhist traditions
    • Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
    • Sir Aurobindo
    • M K Gandhi
    • B R Ambedkar
    • M N Roy
  10. Western Political Thought
    • Plato
    • Aristotle
    • Machiavelli
    • Hoobbes
    • Locke
    • John S Mill Marx
    • Gramsci
    • Hannah Arendt

Indian Government and Politics


  1. Indian nationalism
    • Political strategies of India's freedom struggle
    • Constitutionalism to
      • Mass Sathyagraha
      • Non Cooperation
      • Civil disobedience
      • Militant and revolutionary movements
      • Peasants and worker's movements
    • Perspectives of Indian National Movement
      • Liberal
      • Socialist
      • Marxist
      • Radical humanist
      • Dalit
  2. Making of Indian Constitution
    • Legacies of British rule
    • Different social and political perspectives
  3. Salient features of Indian Constitution
    • The Preamble
    • Fundamental Rights
    • Fundamental Duties
    • Directive principles
    • Parliamentary system
    • Amendment procedures
    • Judicial review
    • Basic structure doctrine
  4. Principal organs
    • Union government
      • Envisaged role
      • Working of 
        • Executive
        • Legislature
        • Supreme Court
    • State government
      • Envisaged role
      • Working of 
        • Executive
        • Legislature
        • High Court
  5. Grassroots democracy
    • Panchayat Raj
    • Municipal government
    • 73rd and 74th amendments
    • Grassroot movements
  6. Statutory Institutions/Commissions
    • Election Commission
    • Comptroller and Auditor General
    • Finance Commission
    • Union Public Service Commission
    • National Commission for Scheduled castes
    • National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
    • National Commission for Women
    • National Human Rights' Commission
    • National Commission for Minorities
    • National Backward Classes Commission
  7. Federalism
    • Constitutional Provisions
    • Changing nature of Centre - State relations
    • Integrationist tendencies
    • Regional aspirations
    • Interstate disputes
  8. Planning and economic development
    • Nehruvian perspectives
    • Gandhian perspectives
    • Role of planning and public sector
    • Liberalisation
    • Economic Reforms
  9. Indian Politics
    • Caste in -
    • Religion in - 
    • Ethnicity in -
  10. Party system
    • National political parties
    • Regional political parties
    • Ideological and social bases of political parties
    • Pattern of Coalition politics
    • Pressure groups
    • Trends in electoral behaviour
    • Changing socio economic profile of legislators
  11. Social movements
    • Civil liberties
    • Human rights' movements
    • Women's movements
    • Environmentalist movements

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