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M.A. POLITICAL SCIENCE (SEMESTER SYSTEM) SYLLABUS 57FOURTH SEMESTERCourse XIII : INDIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT-II (Compulsory)INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER-SETTERS AND CANDIDATES :(i)(ii)The theory question paper will be of 80 marks and 20 marks will be for internal assessment.For private candidates, who have not been assessed earlier for internal assessment, the marks securedby them in theory paper will proportionately be increased to maximum marks of the paper in lieu ofinternal assessment.The paper setter must put note (ii) in the question paper.The syllabus has been divided into four units.There shall be 9 questions in all. The first question is compulsory and shall be short answer typecontaining 15 short questions spread over the whole syllabus to be answered in about 25 to 30 words each.The candidates are required to attempt any 10 short answer type questions carrying 20 marks i.e. 2 marksfor each. Rest of the paper shall contain 4 units. Each unit shall have two questions, and the candidatesshall be given internal choice of attempting one question from each Unit – 4 in all. Each question will carry15 marks.Objectives : The paper introduces the major themes of Indian Political Thought particularly during theIndian National Movement through a study of the contribution of key thinkers during this period.Unit-I• M.K. Gandhi : Politics of Non-violence.• Satyagraha and Swaraj.• Sarvodaya.Unit-II• Challenging Brahminical Discourse : B.R. Ambedkar.• Critique of Brahminical Hinduism.• Class, Caste and Democracy.Unit-III• Politics and Philosophy of M. N. Roy : Theory of Radical Humanism, Roy-Lenin Controversy.• The Ideology of Communist Movement in India.Unit-IV• Indian Socialist Tradition : Jawaharlal Nehru, R.M. Lohia and Jayprakash Narayan.General Readings :Appadorai, A., Indian Political Thinking in the Twentieth Century : From Naoroji to Nehru (London, OUP,1971).Bali, D.R., Modern Indian Thought (New Delhi, Sterling, 1980).Brown, D.M., Nationalist Movement : Indian Political Thought from Ranade to Bhave (Berkeley :University of California Press, 1965).Baxi Uppendra & Parekh, B. (eds.), Crisis and Change in Contemporary India (New Delhi, Sage, 1995).Doctor, A.H., Political Thinkers of Modern India (New Delhi, Mittal, 1997).Pantham, Thomas and Deutsch, K.L. (eds.), Political Thought in Modern India (New Delhi, Sage, 1986).