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CUET Political Science Chapter-wise Syllabus
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CUET Political Science Units
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CUET Political Science Syllabus Topics
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CUET Political Science Syllabus Subtopics
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Politics in India Since Independence
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The era of One-Party Dominance
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First three general elections nature of Congress dominance at the national level, uneven dominance at the state level coalitional nature of Congress Major opposition parties
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Nation-Building and Its Problems
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Nehru’s approach to nation-building, in terms of Legacy of partition, the challenge of ‘refugee’ resettlement, the Kashmir problem Organization and reorganisation of states Political conflicts over language.
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Politics of Planned Development
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Five- year plans expansion of state sector rise of new economic interests Famine and suspension of five-year plans Green revolution and its political fallouts
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India’s External Relations
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Nehru’s foreign policy Sino-Indian war of 1962 Indo-Pak war of 1965 and 1971 India’s nuclear programme shifting alliances in world politics
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Challenge to and Restoration of Congress System
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Political succession after Nehru Non-Congressism and electoral upset of 1967 Congress split and reconstitution Congress’ victory in 1971 Politics of ‘garibi hatao’
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Crisis of the Constitutional Order
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Search for ‘committed’ bureaucracy and judiciary. Navnirman movement in Gujarat Bihar movement Emergency: context, constitutional and extra-constitutional dimensions, resistance to emergency. 1977 elections and the formation of the Janata Party Rise of civil liberties organisations.
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Regional Aspirations and Conflicts
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Rise of regional parties Punjab crisis and anti-sikh riots of 1984 The Kashmir situation Challenges and responses in the North East
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Rise of New Social Movements
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Farmers’ movements Women’s movement Environment Development-affected people’s movements Implementation of Mandal Commission report and its aftermath
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Democratic Upsurge and Coalition Politics
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Participatory upsurge in the 1990s Rise of the JD and the BJP The increasing role of regional parties and coalition politics UF and NDA governments Elections 2004 and UPA government.
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Recent Issues and Challenges
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Challenge of and responses to globalisation New economic policy and its opposition Rise of OBCs in North Indian politics Dalit politics in the electoral and non-electoral arena Challenge of communalism Ayodhya dispute Gujarat riots
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Contemporary World Politics
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Cold War Era in World Politics
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- Emergence of two power blocs after the Second World War
- Arenas of the Cold War
- Challenges to Bipolarity
- Non-Aligned Movement
- the quest for new international economic order
- India and the cold war
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Disintegration of the ‘Second World’ and the Collapse of Bipolarity
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- New entities in world politics: Russia, Balkan states, and, Central Asian states
- Introduction of democratic politics and capitalism in post-communist regimes
- India’s relations with Russia and other post-communist countries.
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US Dominance in World Politics
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- Growth of unilateralism: Afghanistan
- First Gulf War
- Response to 9/11 and attack on Iraq
- Dominance and challenge to the US in economy and ideology
- India’s renegotiation of its relationship with the USA.
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Alternative Centres of Economic and Political Power
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- Rise of China as an economic power in post
- Mao era
- Creation, and expansion of European Union, ASEAN.
- India’s changing relations with China
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South Asia in the Post-Cold War Era
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- Democratisation and its reversals in Pakistan and Nepal
- Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka
- Impact of economic globalisation on the region
- Conflicts and efforts for peace in South Asia
- India’s relations with its neighbours.
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International Organisations in a Unipolar World
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- Restructuring and the future of the UN
- India’s position in the restructured UN
- Rise of new international actors
- new international economic organisations, NGOs.
- Accountability & democracy of new institutions of global governance?
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Security in the Contemporary World
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- Traditional concerns of security and politics of disarmament
- Non-traditional or human security: global poverty, health, and education.
- Issues of human rights and migration.
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Environment and Natural Resources in Global Politics
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- Environment movement and evolution of global environmental norms
- Conflicts over traditional and common property resources
- Rights of indigenous people
- India’s stand-in global environmental debates
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Globalisation and Its Critics
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- Economic, cultural and political manifestations.
- Debates on the nature of consequences of globalisation
- Anti-globalization movements
- India as an arena of globalisation and struggles against it.
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