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[[M.A. POLITICAL SCIENCE (SEMESTER SYSTEM) SYLLABUS 19UNIT-IIIEvolution and Shifts in Party System : Dominant party system, its breakdown and emergenceof multiparty system and coalition politics.Electoral Politics : Emerging trends.National Parties : Structure, ideology and support base.UNIT-IVState and Politics : Debates over the nature of the Indian State with reference to its hegemonic anddevelopmental role.Indian State and Patriarchy.New Economic Policies : Social implications.Note : Students are advised to consult the following journals regularly :Economic and Political Weekly, Mainstream, Seminar, Asian Survey, Pacific Affairs).General Readings :(Some contributions present a broad overview of the working of Indian democracy while a fewcollections are concerned with a variety of interesting issues concerning Indian Politics).1. Baxi, Upendra and Bhikhu Parekh, Crisis and Change in Contemporary India, Sage, New Delhi,1995.2. Brass, Paul, R., Politics of India Since Independence, OUP, Delhi (New Edition).3. Deshpande, Satish, Contemporary India : A Sociological View, Viking, Penguin Books India, NewDelhi, 2003.4. Frankel, Francine et. al. (ed.), Transforming India : Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy,OUP, New Delhi, 2002.5. Hasan, Zoya (ed.), Parties and Party Politics in India, OUP, New Delhi, 2001.6. Jayal, Niraja Gopal (ed.), Democracy in India, OUP, New Delhi, 2001.7. Jenkins, Rob, Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India, Cambridge <strong>University</strong> Press,Cambridge, 1999.8. Kaviraj, Sudipta (ed.), Politics in India, OUP, Delhi, 2000.9. Kohli, Atul (ed.), Success of India’s Democracy, Cambridge <strong>University</strong> Press, Cambridge, 2001.10. Mehra, Ajay K., Khanna, D.D., and Gert W. Kueck (eds.), Political Parties and Party Systems, Sage,New Delhi, 2003.11. Morris-Jones, W.H., Indian Government and Politics, <strong>University</strong> of Hull Press, Hull, 1987.12. Morris-Jones, W.H., Politics Mainly Indian, Orient Longman, Bombay, 1978.13. Sathyamurthy, T.V. (ed.), Social Change and Political Discourse in India, Structures of Power,Movements of Resistance, OUP, Delhi, 1996-97, (Vol. I : State and Nation in the Context of SocialChange, Vol. II : Industry and Agriculture in India since Independence, Vol. III : Region, Religion,Caste, Gender and Culture in Contemporary India; Vol. IV : Class Formation and PoliticalTransformation in Post Colonial India.14. Vanaik, Achin, The Painful Transition : Bourgeois Democracy in India, Verso, London, 1990.15. Weiner, Myron, Politics of Scarcity, Asia Publishing House, Bombay, 1963.16. Weiner, Myron, India’s Paradox : Essays in Indian Politics, Sage, New Delhi, 1989.

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