Burdwan University MA Political Science

Will you please provide here the syllabus of the M.A. Degree in Political Science course of the Burdwan University?

[Arun Vats]

As you want I am here providing you syllabus of the M.A. Degree in Political Science course of the Burdwan University.

Course syllabus includes subjects: :
Indian Political Thought
Liberal and Post Liberal Political Theory
Comparative Politics: Principles and Approaches
Politics in South Asia
Modern Western Political Thought
Marxist

Marxist Political Theory
State Formation and Political Regime
Politics of India since Independence
Theories of Public Administration
Conceptual issues in Political Sociology
Theories of International Relations
Issues of Citizen-centric Administration in India
Political Sociology of the States in India
Indian Foreign

MA political science course syllabus

Department of Political Science
The University of Burdwan

M.A. (Political Science) Syllabus First Semester MAPOL101 Indian Political Thought [Core Paper]

1. Kautilya: Dandaniti---the Saptanga theory

2. Political Thought of Mediaeval India: Theory of sovereign power and kingship; state and administration

3. Rammohun Roy: Liberal outlook

4. Swami Vivekananda: man-making; nation-building and socialism

5. Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi: critique of western civilization and the state

6. Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose: democracy and socialism

7. Syed Ahmed Khan: nationalism

8. B.R.Ambedkar: alternative nationhood

MAPOL102 Liberal and Post Liberal Political Theory [Core Paper]

1. The Enlightenment, modernity and liberalism: different intellectual traditions

2. L.T.Hobhouse: modern liberalism

3. Hannah Arendt: totalitarianism

4. Concept of liberty and Minimalist state: Hayek and Nozick

5. Theory of Justice: Rawls and Sen

6. Communitarianism: basic tenets; concept of civic republicanism

7. Multiculturalism: basic tenets; multiculturalism in the non-western world

8. Post-Colonialism and Orientalism: an overview


Department of Political Science
The University of Burdwan

MAPOL103 Comparative Politics: Principles and Approaches [Core Paper]

1. Comparative politics: meaning ,nature , evolution and utility

2. Institutional and Neo-institutional

3. Political systems

4. Structural-functional

5. Political Development and Modernization

6. Parties and Party Systems

7. Pressure Groups

8. Political Culture

MAPOL104 Politics in South Asia [Core Paper]

1. The concept of South Asia as a region

2. Problems of state-formation and nation-building in South Asia

3. Problems of ethnicity, religion and language in South Asia: Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Maldives and Afghanistan

4. Democratization in South Asia

5. The Role of military in South Asian politics: Pakistan and Bangladesh

6. Federalism: Pakistan and Sri Lanka

7. Regional integration in South Asia: SAARC

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