POLITICAL SCIENCE FOR CIVIL SERVICES MAINS EXAMINATIONS

1. Political Theory : Meaning and Significance
2. Political Theory: Approaches, Debates, Trends
3. Theories of State
4. Justice: Rawls? Theory of Justice
5. Equality: Types, Forms, Relationship with Freedom, and Affirmative Action
6. Rights and the Concept of Human Rights
7. Democracy:Representative, Participatory, and Deliberative
8. Concepts: Power, Hegemony, Ideology, Legitimacy
9. Political Ideologies: Liberalism, Socialism, Marxism, Fascism, Gandhism, Feminism
10. Indian Political Thought I: Dharmashastra, Arthashastra, Buddhist Tradition, and Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
11. Indian Political Thought II : Sri Aurobindo, M.K. Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, M.N. Roy
12. Western Political Thought I: Plato and Aristotle
13. Western Political Thought II : Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Mill
14. Western Political Thought III : Marx, Gramsci, Arendt
15. Indian Nationalism: Strategies and Perspectives
16. The Making of the Indian Constitution
17. Salient Features of the Indian Constitution
18. Indian Constitution: Amendment Procedure and Basic Structure Doctrine
19. Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties
20. The Executive in India: The President, The Prime Minister, and the Union Cabinet, The Governor, the Chief Minister and the State Cabinet
21. The Legislature in India: Parliament of India and Legislatures in States
22. The Judiciary in India : The Supreme Court, the High Courts, etc
23. Grassroots Democracy: Urban and Rural Government (Municipal Administration and Panchayati Raj)
24. The Statutory Institutions/Commissions
25. Federalism in India
26. Planning and Economic Development
27. Party System and Pressure Groups in India
28. Caste, Religion, Ethnicity, Social Movements in India
29. Comparative Politics : Nature, Approaches, Perspectives
30. The State in Comparative Perspectives
31. Representation, Participation, Party Systems, Pressure Groups, Social Movements
32. Globalisation : Perspectives
33. Approaches to the Study of International Relations
34. Key Concepts in International Relations
35. Changing International Political Order
36. Non-Alignment Movement, Soviet Disintegration, Unipolarity
37. International Economic System : WTO, CMEA, NIEO
38. The United Nations System
39. The Regionalisation of World Politics: EU, ASEAN, APEC, SAARC, NAFTA
40. Contemporary Global Concerns (Democracy, Human Rights, Environment, Gender Justice, Terrorism, Nuclear Proliferation)
41. India?s Foreign Policy and Its Role in NAM
42. India and South Asia
43. India?s Relations with Neighbouring States (Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka)
44. India and the Global South (Africa and Latin America)
45. India and the Global Centres of Powers (USA, EU, Japan, China, Russia, France, etc.)
46. India and the United Nations System
47. India and the Nuclear Question
48. Recent Developments in Indian Foreign Policy