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The subjects Political Theory and Constitutional Law are amongst the core-subjectsprescribed for the Foundational Course and IAS Professional Course. Both are intrinsicallyinter-disciplinary embracing substantive problem areas of civic society. Apart from ananalytical framework both subjects offer a moral language in which to describe and judgepolitical phenomena. An in-depth study of these subjects offer a new angle of vision, a newway of seeing or understanding the apparently contradictory but essentially complementaryideals of liberty and order. It is the endeavour of the Faculty of Political Theory andConstitutional Law to address these issues and make the administrators aware of thechallenges and ethos of our plural, democratic and federal polity.Course InputsFoundational CourseIn the Foundational Course, the main objective is to give an overview of "Indian PoliticalSystem" to enable trainees to comprehend the basic Constitutional values, Institutional setups,and power-relations between different groups. Topics like the "Paradoxes of IndianDemocracy", "National Integration in a Multi-Cultural Society" and "India in theInternational System", are discussed in detail. The core topic of the Political theory, i.e.,"Power and Authority" was deliberated with great verve and vigour. A film on the subjectwas also shown. Further with a view to sensitize the officer trainees in the realm of religioustolerance and to make them aware of the cancer of communalism, sessions of the topic"Secularism and Communalism" were continued from last year and covered in great depthduring this year.IAS Professional Course Phase-IDuring IAS Professional Course, Phase-I, the emphasis of the discussions, focused on theunderlying causes and processes of our political dynamics. Topics like "Public Protest andParliamentary Democracy", "Agrarian Unrest", "Student Unrest", and "Caste and CommunalUnrest", were discussed in length. Officar trainees are also sensitized to the perennialimportance of "Civil Liberties/Human Rights in India". Further, the symbiotic relationshipbetween the Political Process and Developmental Process was brought out in the lecture onthe topic "Politics of Development". An innovative introduction on "Gender Issues" was alsogiven during this course.