Syllabus (POLITICAL SCIENCE)
Course Type: MAJ-4
Semester: 4
Course Code: BPLSMAJ04T
Course Title: Indian Political Thought
(L-P-Tu): 5-0-1
Credit: 6
Practical/Theory: Theory
Course Objective:
Learning Outcome: Course Outcome: This course is to familiarize the students with the larger political and social thinking and ideas in Ancient, medieval and Modern India. Designed in a way to help students engage with various ideological dispensations that came to shaped
Learning Objectives:
- To systematically explain the major strands in modern Indian Political Thinkers.
- To apprise students with the basic thought of these thinkers with reference to their perception of colonial rule, ideas of nationalism, critique of western civilization and ideas regarding reconstruction of society.
- To enable the students to qualify the competitive examination like UPSC/PSC, NET/ SET examination.
Course Content: 6*6= 36 Classes (6 Classes per topic)
- Ancient Indian Political Thought: Basic Features, Kautilya’s Saptanga theory & Dandaniti.
- Main features of Political thought of medieval India.
- Raja Rammohun Roy—his social activism and liberal thought.
- Swami Vivekananda: concept of nation-making & socialism.
- Rabindra Nath Tagore: concept of Atmasakti & shift from nationalism to humanism.
- Gandhi: Trusteeship and Sarvodaya, Ambedkar: social Justice.
Suggested Readings:
- Mehta, V. R. Foundations of Indian Political Thought, Manohar, 1992
- T. Pantham and K Deustch (eds), Political thought in Modern India, Sage Publications, Delhi, 1986
- Guha Ramachandra, Makers of Modern India, Penguin Viking, 2010.
- Thomas Pantham,Politicaldiscourse:Expoloration in Indian and western political thought
- Bidyut Chakarabarty and RK Pandey, Modern Indian Political Thought
- H.R. Mukhi: History of Modern Indian Political Thought
Basic Features
Undergraduate degree programmes of either 3 or 4-year duration, with multiple entry and exit points and re-entry options, with appropriate certifications such as:
- UG certificate after completing 1 year (2 semesters with 40 Credits + 1 Summer course of 4 credits) of study,
- UG diploma after 2 years (4 semesters with 80 Credits + 1 Summer course of 4 credits) of study,
- Bachelor’s degree after a 3-year (6 semesters with 120 credits) programme of study,
- 4-year bachelor’s degree (Honours) after eight semesters (with 170 Credits) programme of study.
- 4-year bachelor’s degree (Honours with Research) if the student completes a rigorous research project (of 12 Credits) in their major area(s) of study in the 8th semester.
Note: The eligibility condition of doing the UG degree (Honours with Research) is- minimum75% marks to be obtained in the first six semesters.
- The students can make an exit after securing UG Certificate/ UG Diploma and are allowed to re-enter the degree programme within three years and complete the degree programme within the stipulated maximum period of seven years.
