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The syllabus has been divided into four units.M.A. POLITICAL SCIENCE (SEMESTER SYSTEM) SYLLABUS 75There 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 : This paper seeks to familiarize students with the Marxist engagement with critical issues inthe late twentieth century.Unit-IStructure and Agency : Marxian Debates.Unit-IIFeminism and Marxism : Production, Reproduction and Power.Unit-IIIEnvironmentalism and Marxism, Capitalism, Colonialism, Socialism and Environmental Degradation.Unit-IVNationalism, Internationalism and Marxism.Globalization and Marxist Critique.Readings :(Students are expected to consult the journals Monthly Review, New Left Review and Socialist Registerregularly).1. Groz, A., Farewell to the Working Class, Pluto Press, London, 1982.2. Barret, Michele, Women’s Oppression Today : Problems in Marxist Feminist Analysis, Verso,London, 1980.3. Landes, Joan, 'Marxism and the Women Question' in Sonia Kruks, Rayana Rapp and Marilyn B.Young (ed.), Promissory Notes : Women in the Transition to Socialism, Monthly Review Press, NewYork, 1989.4. Mies, Maria, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale, Zed Books, London, 1986.5. Mies, Maria, 'World Economy, Patriarchy and Accumulation' in Nelly Stromquist (ed.), Women inthe Third World, Garland, New York, 1998.6. Bahro, Rudolph, From Red to Green, 1984.7. Foster, John Bellamy, The Vulnerable Planet, A Short Economic History of the Environment,Monthly Review Press, New York, 1994 (Indian Reprint) Cornerstone Publication, Kharagpur, 1999.8. Foster, John Bellamy, Marx’s Ecology : Materialism and Nature, Monthly Review Press, New York,2000.9. Harvey, David, 'The Nature of Environment : Dialectics of Social and Environmental Change' inRalph Miliband and Leo Panitch (eds.), Socialist Register, The Marlin Press, London, 1993.10. Pratt, Larry and Wendy Montgomery, 'Green Imperialism, Pollution, Penitence, Profits in LeoPanitch (ed.), Socialist Register, Marlin Press, London and K.P. Bagchi & Compnay, Calcutta,1997.