ba pt II - Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University, Ajmer, Rajasthan

compulsory and contains 10 questions at least three questions from each unit,
each question is of two mark (20 words). Part -B (20 marks) is compulsory and
contains five questions at least one from each unit. Candidate is required to
attempt all five questions. Each question is of four marks (50 words). Part-C (30
marks) contains six questions two from each unit. Candidate is required to attempt
three questions one from each Unit. Each question is of twenty marks (400 words).
Unit I
Historical Background and the Coustitution
Politics : Main Currents of the National Movement-Moderates, Extremists,
Gandhian , Revolutionary
Constitutional : Govt. of India Act, 1909; Govt. Of India 1919- with special reference
to Diarchy, Govt. of India Act, 1935 with special reference to Provincial Autonomy
The Constituent Assembly - Origin, Organisation and functioning; The Main
Characteristics of the Indian Constitution; The Constitution Amendment Process,
The ideological elements-Preamble, Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles
of State Policy, Fundamental Duties and Secularism
Unit II
The Union and State Government
President - Election, Position, Powers and Functions, Council of Ministers and
Prime Minister - Position and role.
Parliament - Organisation Power and working of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha,
Modes of Relationship between the two houses.
The Supreme Court - Organisation and jurisdiction, Judicial Review, Judicial
Activitism, Conflict of supremacy between the parliament and supreme court.
The State Government
Governor - Position and role, the Council of Ministers and Chief Minister, the
State legislature.
The Federal System - The need and nature of the federal system, Centre-State
relations, Areas of Tension and demand for autonomy.
Unit - III
Dynamics
The Party System, Political Parties - National and Regional, The Election
Commission, Electoral Reforms and Voting Behaviour.
Determinants of Political System :
(a) Economic - Class and Poverty
(b) Sociological : Caste, Religion, Region, Language, Gender and terrorism
(c) Political - Political parties and pressure groups.
Selected Readings:
1. A .Ray: Tension Areas in Indian Federal System
2. A. Kohli (ed.) : The Success of India’s Democracy, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 2001.
3. A. Kohli : Democracy and Discontent : India’s Growing Crisis of Governablitity,
Syllabus/B.A. Part -II / 61 62 / Syllabus/B.A. Part -II
Cambridge, University Press, 1991.
4. A.Granville: The Indian Constitution Cornerstone
5. A.R.Desai, (Ed.):Peasant Struggle
6. Alen Glend :Fundamental Rights in India
7. Bidyut Chakrabarty & Rajendra Kumar Pandey : Indian Government and
Politics, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2008
8. D. D. Basu : An Introduction to the Constitution of India, New Delhi, Prentice
Hall, 1994.
9. D.S. Smith: Indian as a Secular State
10. G. Austin : The Indian Constitution: Corner Stone of a Nation, Oxford
University Press, 1996.
11. G. Austin : Working a Democratic Constitution : The Indian Experience,
Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2000.
12. H.C.Alexandrawicz: Constitutional Government in India
13. J.C.Johari :Indian Political System (English &Hindi)
14. Kashyap : Our Parliament, New Delhi, National Book Trust, 1992.
15. Kodesia: The Problem of National Integration
16. L.M.Singhvi: Union-State relations in India
17. M. Chadda : Ethnicity, Security and Separatism in India, Delhi, Oxford
University Press, 1997.
18. M.V.Pylee: Constitutional Government in India
19. Morris Jones:The Government and Politics in India
20. Mynor Weiner: State Politics in India
21. N.D.Palmer: The Indian Political System
22. N.K.Bose: Problem of National Integration of a Nation
23. P. Brass : Politics of India Since Independence, Hyderabad, Orient Longman, 1990.
24. R. L. Hardgrave : India : Government and Politics in a Development Nation,
New York Harcourt, Brace and World, 1965.
25. Rajni Kothari: Politics in India
26. Rajni Kothari, (Ed.): Party System and Election Studies
27. U. Baxi : The Indian Supreme Court and Politics, Delhi, Eastern Book Company,
1980.
28. U. Baxi : Crisis and Change in Contemporary India. New Delhi, Sage.
29. Neiner Myeon : Party Politics in India, The Development of Multiparty
System, D.K. Publishers Distributors, New Delhi.
30. U.C. Jain : Encyclopedia of Indian Government and Politics in 10 Vols, Pioneer
Publishers, Jaipur
31. K.C. Markanandan :Centre State Relations, D.K. Publishers Distributors, New Delhi.
32. R.C. Aggarwal : Indian Government and Politics (India Political System) 5 th
ed. , S.Chand and Company, New Delhi, 2000.
33. C.P. Bhambri : Indian Politics since Independence (2 Vols.) Metropolitan
Books ,New Delhi.