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UNIT -1,2, 3 AND 4

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THE CONSEQUENCES OF COLONIALISM

• DEFINING COLONIALISM• CONSEQUENCES OF COLONIALISM 1 NATURE AND PHASE OF THE COLONIAL

EMPIRE 2 IMPACT: THE FIRST PHASE – PEASANTRY AND

ITS IMPOVERISHMENT 3 IMPACT: THE SECOND PHASE – DE-

INDUSTRIALISATION AND ITS EFFORT 4 IMPACT: THE THIRD PHASE – IMPERIALISM AND

INDUSTRIALISATION


RESPONSES OF INDIAN SOCIETY

• INDIA AND THE COLONIAL EXPERIENCE• THE WORLD OF THE PEASANTRY • THE TRIBAL REPONSES• MIDDLE CLASS, INTELLIGENTSIA AND SOCIAL REFORM 1 THE IDEAS AND VISION OF NEW CLASS 2 SOCIAL REFORMERS AND PUBLIC DEBATE• REFORM MOVEMENTS• REFORM OR REVIVAL • SOCIAL OR POLITICAL REFORM ? • THE INTELLIGENTSIA, REFORMS AND THE COLONIAL STATE• CRITIQUE OF COLONIALISM


NATIONAL MOVEMENT• EARLY NATIONALISTIC ACTIVITIES1 INDIANS REALISE COLONIAL DISCRIMINATION2 DEMAND FOR INCREASE IN INDIAN REPRESENTATION• EXTREMIST NATIONALIST PHASE • GHADAR AND THE HOME RULE MOVEMENT• COMING OF GANDHI AND THE NON-COOPERATION

MOVEMENT1 GANDHI AND PEASANTRY 2 PROTEST AGAINST THE ROWLETT ACT3 NON-COOPERATION MOVEMENT• RISE OF THE PEASANTRY, WORKING CLASSES AND THE LEFT1 GANDHI- AMBEDKAR DEBATE 2 ARRIVAL OF MARXISM 3 GROWTH OF COMMUNALISM


NATIONAL MOVEMENT• CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE MOVEMENT AND ITS

AFTERMATH1 THE SIMON COMMISITION 2 CIVIL DISOBEDIENT MOVEMENT• THE WAR AND THE QUIET INDIA MOVEMENT• POST WAR UPSURGE1 THE INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY• COMMUNIAL RIOTS , INDEPENDENCE AND

PARTITION


EMERGENCE OF NEW CLASSES

• FACTORS LEADING TO THE EMERGENCE OF NEW CLASSES

• OLD CLASSES IN NEW MILIEU1 ZAMINDARS2 TENANTS3 PEASANT- PROPRIETORS4 THE KISAN MOVEMENT, MAIN LAND MARKS5 MODERN INDIAN INTELLIGENTSIA6 THE CAPITALIST CLASS 7 THE RISE OF THE WORKING CLASS


BLOCK – 2PHILOSOPHY OF INDIAN CONSTITUTION

UNIT – 5, 6, 7 AND 8


THE MAKING OF INDIAN CONSTITUTION

• The Meaning of Constitutional Government• The Roots of the Constituent Assembly of India• The Cabinet Mission Plan (1) A Constituent Assembly(2) The Federal Formula(3) A Three- Tier Federation(4) An Odd Procedure(5) No Way Out of a Group• The “Grouping” Controversy• Composition of the proposed Constituent

Assembly


THE MAKING OF INDIAN CONSTITUTION

• An Interim Government• The Constituent Assembly and Partition• Parties in the Constituent Assembly(1) Congress Dominance (2) Leadership of the Constituent Assembly(3) The Opposition in the Constituent Assembly (4) The Fence –Sitters• Work of the Constituent Assembly• Status of the Constituent Assembly


BASIC FEATURE• Government of India Act, 1935• Constituent Assembly• Essential Features(1) sovereign, Democratic, Republic (2) Union of States(3) Fundamental rights(4) Directive Principles of State Policy(5) Fundamental duties(6) The union: Executive, Legislature and

Judiciary


BASIC FEATURE• Emergency Provisions(1) General Emergency (2) Declaration of Constitutional Emergency(3) Financial Emergency• Federalism(1) Centre-state Relations• Relative Flexibility


UNIT -7

• VISION OF SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

• SIGNIFICANCE OF A WRITTEN CONSTITUTION

(1) Constitution as a Positive Law(2) Its Contractual Nature(3) Philosophy of a Constitution(4) Constitution and Justice


UNIT-7

• PREABLE TO A CONSTITUION• THE INDIAN VISION(1) The Anti-Imperialist Legacy(2) Movements for Social Justice(3) The Nationalist Programmess


UNIT-7

• RIGHTS AS THE CORE OF THE NATIONALIST PROGRAMME

(1) Influence of Socialism(2) Poverty Relief and Planning(3) Role of the Leftist Groups(4) Opposition to Caste Oppresion


UNIT-7

• IDEOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS(1) Class Character of the Indian National

Congress(2) Stress on Politics• THE CONGRESSCONSENSUS(1) The Parliamentary Tradition(2) Federalism(3) Welfarism


UNIT-7• UNFOLDING OF THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC

PROGRAMME(1) The Strategy(2) The Specific Objectives• THE CONGRESS RESOLUTION ON THE

OBJECTIVES OF THE CONSTITUTION• THE “OBJECTIVES RESOLUTION” OF THE

CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY• STRUCTURAL LIMITATION


UNIT-8

• RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP• WHAT IS CITIZENSHIP ?(1) Citizenship and Individualism(2) Citizenship and multiculturalism


UNIT-8• CITIZENSHIP AND RIGHTS IN THE INDIAN

CONSTITUTION(1) Who are the Citizen of India?(2) Recognition of Community in Indian citizenship(3) Directive Principles of State Policy(4) Rights and Franchise(5) Duties of Citizenship


UNIT-8

• TENSIONS IN CITIZENSHIP(1) CITIZENSHIP AND GENDER• PATHWAYS TO CITIZENSHIP


UNIT -9• WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A PARLIMENTARY

DEMOCRACY?• EVOLUTION(1) FEATURES OF PARLIMENTARY SYSTEM OF

GOVERNMENT• PARLIMENTARY SYSTEM IN INDIA


UNIT-10

• LEGISLATURE• INDIAN LEGISLATURE: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND• UNION LEGISLATURE(1) The President(2) The Parliament: Lok Sabha(3) The Parliament : Rajya Sabha(4) Special Powers of Rajya Sbha• THE PRESIDING OFFICERS(1) The Speaker(2) The Chairperson of Rajya Sabha


UNIT-10• LEGISLATURE PROCEDURE(1) Money Bills• PARLIMENTARY PRIVILEGES• PARLIMENTARY DEVICES TO CONTROL THE

EXECUTIVE(1) Parliamentary Committees• STATE LEGISLATURE• DECLINE OF LEGISLATURE


UNIT -11• EXECUTIVE• PRESIDENT OF INDIA(1) QUALIFICATIONS(2) METHOD OF ELECTION(3) TERM OF OFFICE AND REMOVAL OF THE

PRESIDENT• POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT(1) EMERGENCY POWERS


UNIT-11• THE PRIME MINISTER(1) The Council of Minister and the Cabinet(2) Collective Responsibility• THE CABINET AND THE PARLIAMENT(1) Sources of Prime Minister’s Power and Influence• THE PRESIDENT AND THE PRIME MINISTERS


UNIT-12

• JUDICIARY• EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF JUDICIARY

IN INDIA• THE SUPREME COURT(1) Composition and Appointments(2) Tenure(3) Salaries(4) Immunities


UNIT-12• JURISDICTION OF THE SUPREME COURT(1) Original jurisdiction (2) Appellant jurisdiction(3) Advisory jurisdiction(4) Review jurisdiction


UNIT -12

• THE HIGH COURT(1) Composition of the High court(2) Jurisdiction• SUBORDINATE COURTS• JUDICIAL COURTS• JUDICIAL REVIEW• JUDICIAL REFORMS


UNIT-13

• BUREAUCRACY• MEANING AND CONCEPT• FEATURE(1) Hierarchy(2) Chain of command(3) Adherence to Rules and Regulations(4) Impersonal and Apolitical• HISTORY(1) India’s Independence and Bureaucracy


UNIT -13• STATUTORY BODIES FOR RECRUITMENT

AND OTHER RELATED MATTERS(1) The Union Public Service Commission(2) Special Provision for Deprived Section(3) Controversy over the policy of Reservation(4) State Public Service Commissions


UNIT-13• POST-INDEPENDENCE BEREAUCRACY UP TO

THE COMMENCEMENT OF GLOBALISATION(1) 1967 State Assembly Elections: A WATERSHED(2) Churning within the Congress Party(3) The Idea of a Committed Bureaucracy(4) Bureaucracy – Politician – Businessmen Nexus• INDIAN BUREAUCRACY IN THE ERA OF

GLOBISATION(1) Attitude of the Indian Bureaucracy


UNIT-13

• BUREAUCRACY: SOME ISSUES(1) MINISTERS VERSUS CIVIL SERVENTS(2) GENERALISTS VERSUS SPECIALISTS(3) UNDER-REPRESENTATIONS OF THE

MINORITIES


BLOCK-4

• UNIT 14,15,16,17 AND 18


UNIT-14

• NATURE OF INDIAN FEDERALISM• FEDERALISM IN INDIA(1) The structure of the Indian federation(2) Territories of the states(3) Structures of Government(4) Division of powers


UNIT-14

• THE UNION-STATE RELATIONS(1) The financial powers of the union and the state(2) The finance commission(3) The planning commission and National Development

• THE UNION TERRITORIES


UNIT-15

• SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR NORTH- EAST, J $ K, ETC.

• SPECIAL PROVISIONS(1) Article 370 regarding Jammu and Kashmir(2) The Sixth schedule for the North – East(3) The Fifth Schedule for the Schedule Area


UNIT-15• WHY SPECIAL PROVISION(1) Jammu and kashmir(2) The North-East(3) The Scheduled Area(4) Special Category States (scs)• POLITICAL RELATING TO THE SPECIAL

PROVISION(1) Jammu and kashmir(2) North-East India


UNIT-16• ISSUES IN CONFLICT AND COOPERATION IN

INDIAN FEDERALISM• FEDERALISM AND CENTRALISATION(1) Changing Environment(2) Centralization

• ROLE OF GOVERNOR(1) Appointment of Governor(2) Discretionary powers of Governor(3) Reservation of Bills for consideration of President


UNIT-16• USE OF EMERGENCY POWER(1) Emergency under Article 356(2) Conflict over President’s Rule• FINANCIAL RELATIONS(1) Taxation Power(2) Issue of Grants(3) Economics Planning• USE OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA


UNIT-16• DEMAND FOR AUTONOMY AND COOPERATION(1) Demand for Autonomy (2) Steps Towards Cooperation(3) Sarkaria Commission(4) Inter- State Council


UNIT-17• AUTONOMY MOVEMENTS AND STATES

REORGANISATION IN INDIA• THE THEORETICAL ISSUES(1) Territoriality Versus culture(2) Government in a Multi-culture State(3) Cross – cutting Cleavage• THE COLONIAL EXPERIENCE(1) “British” and “Native” Indians(2) From Presidencies to Provinces(3) Religion Versus Language


UNIT -17• INDIA AFTER PARTITION(1) From Provinces to States(2) The Backward Tracts• LINGUISTIC REORGANISATION OF STATES(1) Creation of Andhra State(2) States Reorganization, 1956(3) Creation of New States(4) Reorganisation of North- East India(5) Upgradation of Union Territories• ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSION(1) Power and Benefits of Statehood (2) Identity and Statehood


UNIT-18• LOCAL SELF –GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION : RURAL

AND URBAN• HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF RURAL SELF-

GOVERNMENT IN INDIA• PANCHAYATI RAJ IN POST- INDEPENDENCE INDIA• THE 73rd CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ACT,1992(1) Panchayats(Extension to the Scheduled Areas)Act,1996


UNIT -18• THE PANCHAYATI RAJ INSTITUTIONS IN

THE POST-73rd AMENDMENTERA:THE CASE OF UP

(1) Gram Panchayat(2) Kshetra Panchayat(3) Zila Panchayat(Zila Parishad) (4) Relatitionships Between the PRIs and DRDAs(5) The PRIs: An Assessment


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• UNIT -19, 20, 21, 22 AND 23


UNIT -19(NATURE OF PARTY SYSTEM IN INDIA)

• NATURE OF PARTY SYSTEM – FIRST TWO DECADES AFTER INDEPENDENCE

1. EVOLUTION FROM POLITICLE CENTER

2. DOMINANT PARTY SYSTEM: BASIC CHARACTERISTICS

3. CENTRALITY OF CONGRESS


NATURE OF PARTY SYSTEM• CHANGED SOCIO-ECONOMICS PROFILE :

DISLOCATION OF POLITICLE CENTRE• PARTY SYSTEM AFTER 1967• LOSS OF CENTRALITY OF CONGRESS AND

EMERGING PARTY SYSTEM• CONTEMPORARYPARTY SYSTEM

1. PARTY SYSTEM AT THE CENTRAL LEVEL2. PARTY SYSTEM AT THE STATE LEVEL


NATIONAL AND REGIONAL PARTIES

• MEANING OF A NATIONAL AND A REGIONAL PARTY

• NATIONAL PARTIES1. THE CONGRESS (1)2. THE BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY3. THE COMMUNIST PARTIES4. THE BAHUJAN SAMAJ PARTY


NATIONAL AND REGIONAL PARTIES

• THE REGIONAL PARTIES1. THE DRAVIDA MUNNETRA

KAZHAGAM(DMK) AND THE ALL INDIA ANNA DRAVIDA MUNNETRA KAZHAGAM(AIADMK)

2. THE SHIROMANI AKALI DAL3. THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE4. THE TELUGU DESAM PARTY5. THE ASSAM GANA PARISHAD6. THE JHARKHAND PARTY


ELECTIONS• ELECTION SYSTEM IN INDIA1. WHO IS ALLOWED TO VOTE?2. WHO CAN CONTEST ELECTION?• HISTORY OF INDIAN ELECTIONS• WHO CONDUCTS ELECTIONS?• INCREASING NUMBER OF CANDIDATES• HOW DOES THE VOTING TAKE PLACE?• VOTER TURNOUT IN INDIA ELECTIONS• WHO FORMS THE GOVERNMENT?• ELECTIONS AND SOCIAL CHANGE


Caste, class and politics in India • WHAT IS CASTE?• MAIN FEATURES OF CASTE• DYNAMIC RELATIONSHIP• REGIONAL VARIATIONS• CASTE AND CLASS• STRATIFICATION WITH IN CASTE• PRESSURE GROUP: CASTE ASSOCIATION• POLITICAL PARTIES• CASTE IN VOTING BEHAVIOR


COALITION POLITICS• FORMS OF COALITION POLITICS• COALITION BEHAVIOUR• COALITION POLITICS IN INDIA(1947-1967)• COALITION GOVERNMENT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY• EMERGENCE OF COALITION GOVERNMENTS IN

INDIA (1967-1977)• EMERGENCE OF COALITION GOVERNMENT AT THE

CENTRE(1977-1979)• THE DECLINE OF COALITION POLITICS (1980-1989)• COALITION OF POLITICS(FROM 1989)• WORKING OF THE COALITION GOVERNMENT IN

INDIA


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• UNIT 24, 225, 26, 27 AND 28


WOMEN

• REFORMS FOR WOMEN IN THE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURIES

1. AGAINTS “SATI”2. WIDOW REMARRIAGE3. REHABILITATION OF THE

PROSTITUTES4. ARYA SAMAJ5. PROHIBITION OF CHILD MARRIAGE


WOMEN

• EDUCATION FOR WOMEN AND WOMEN EMERGING WITH IDENTITY

1. WOMEN IN LETERATURE AND LITERATURE BY WOMEN

2. WOMEN FOR RIGHTS3. WOMEN FOR WOMEN4. WOMEN IN NATIONALIST STRUGGLE5. WOMEN FOR EQUALITY


WOMEN

• WOMEN’S INDEPENDENCE POLITICAL IDENTITY

1. DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN IN POLITICAL

2. WOMEN’S INITIATIVES IN POLITICS3. WOMEN “TERRORISTS”


WOMEN• MAJOR ISSUES CONFRONTING WOMEN’S

UNITY OR UNITED MOVEMENT1. COMMUNALISM AND CASTEISM2. DAILY ENCOUNTER WITH OPPRESSION 2.1 AGAINST ALCOHOL 2.2 AGAINST DOWRY 2.3 AGAINST SEXUAL ABUSE3. ENVIRONMENT AND LIVELIHOOD


WOMEN

• WOMEN IN POLITICS ‘BY’ WOMEN1. TELENGANA MOVEMENT2. BODH GAYA MOVEMENT3. DALIT WOMEN’S MOVEMENT4. ADIVASI WOMEN’S MOVEMENT5. MOVEMENT THROUGH LITERATURE,

THEATRE AND OTHER FORMS OF EXPRESSION


DALITS

• WHO IS DALIT AND WHAT IS A DALITS MOVEMENT?

• DALITS MOVEMENT IN INDIA1. DALITS MOVEMENT IN THE

COLONIAL PERIOD2. DALITS MOVEMENT IN THE POST-

COLONIAL PERIOD


TRIBALS• TRIBAL SOCIETY AND ECONOMY• SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS IN

INDIA1. PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD2. POST-COLONIAL PERIOD• CHARACTERISTICS AND CONSEQUENCES

OF TRIBAL MOVEMENTS


ENVIRONMENT

• HISTORICAL BACKGROUND1. MAN-NATURE RELATIONSHIP2. EMERGENCE OF ECO-POLITICS3. DEBATE ON DEVELOPMENT AND

SUSTAINABILITY• NATURE OF ENVIRONMENT

MOVEMENTS


ENVIRONMENTS

• MAJOR ISSUES1. ROLE OF THE STATE2. ROLE OF JUDICIARY3. ENVIRONMENT VERSUS LIVELIHOOD• TWO CASE STUDIES1. SILENT VALLEY MOVEMENT2. CHIPKO MOVEMENT


WORKERS AND PEASANTS• WORKERS MOVEMENTS1. WORKER’S MOVEMENTS IN THE COLONIAL

PERIOD2. THE ISSUES AND THE TYPES OF COLLECTIVE

ACTIONS3. WORKERS’ MOVEMENTS IN THE POST-COLONIAL

PERIOD 3.1 THE NATIONAL LEVEL 3.2 THE PROVIANCIAL LEVEL 3.3 THE TRADE UNION WITHOUT POLITICAL

AFFILIATIONS 3,4 THE LIMITATION OF THE WORKERS’

MOVEMENTS


WORKERS AND PEASANT

• PEASANT MOVEMENTS1. SMALL AND POOR PEASANTS’

MOVEMENTS2. RICH PEASANTS’ AND FARMERS’

MOVEMENTS• IMPACT OF LIBERALISATION ON THE

WORKERS’ AND PEASANT MOVEMENTS


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• UNIT -29, 30, 31 AND 32S


GLOBALISATION AND LIBERALISATION

• GLOBALISATION:MEANING AND APPROACHES1. MEANING2. CHARACTERISTICS3. APPROACHES• GLOBALISATION AND WORLD SYSTEM1. THE WORLD SYSTEM: CAPITALIST, SOCIALIST

AND MIXED ECONOMY2. TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORLD SYSTEM

UNDER GLOBALISATION3. REGIONALISATION OF TRADE AND INVESTMENT

FLOWS



• LIBERALISATION1. MEANING2. SHIFT FROM STATE TO MARKET3. FACETS OF LIBERALISATION• GLOBALISATION, NATION-STATE AND

SOVEREIGNTY1. SHIFTING CONCEPTION OF THE NATION-STATE

AND SOVEREIGNTY• IMPACT OF GLOBALISATION1. ECONOMIC2. POLITICAL3. CULTURAL



• RESPONSE OF THE INDIAN STATE1. MEASURES TOWARDS GLOBALISATION• DEBATE ON LIBERALISATION AND

GLOBALISATION IN INDIA1. GROWTH OF THE ECONOMY 2. EXTERNAL CONTROL3. IMPACT ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY4. INEQUALITY BETWEEN RICH AND POOR STATES5. BASIC INDUSTRIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE6. INVESTMENT IN SOCIAL SECTORS


SECULARISM AND THE COMMUNAL CHALLENCE

• SECULARISM: MEANING AND DEFINITION• THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION AND SECULARISM• COMMUNAL CHALLENGE TO SECULARISM1. THE CHARACTER OF THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT2. ELECTORAL POLITICS AND THE DECLINE OF

DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTION3. THE NATURE OF CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT AND

CHARACTER OF THE INDIAN RULING CLASS• THE ANTI-MODERNIST CHALLENGE

TOSECULARISM• WHAT IS THE WAY OUT?


DEMOCRACY IN SEARCH OF EQUALITY

• DEMOCRACY AND EQUALITY• THE IDEA OF EQUALITY IN CONSTITUTION1. THE PREAMBLE2. FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND DIRECTIVE PRINCIPLES3. OTHER PROVISIONS4. MINORITY RIGHTS• PROTECTIVE DISCRIMATION: POLICY OF RESERVATION• BACKWARD CASTES’ ASSERTION• EQUALITY FOR WOMEN1. WOMEN’S REPRESENTATION IN DECISION-MAKING BODIES


CRIME, REPRESSION AND TERROR IN INDIAN POLITICS

• INTRODUCTION1. THE MEANING OF POLITICS2. TRANSITION IN INDIAN POLITICS• CRIME AND POLITICS• WHAT IS REPRESSION?• TERROR: A CONTESTED CATEGORY

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