The course encompasses the functioning of electoral democracy in India
in the context of a federal multicultural set up as well as the dynamics of
political process in India, nature of party functioning and their impact on
coalition politics and voting behaviour. The course will also engage students
with the various autonomy and regional movements. How religion and caste interacts
in the political sphere bringing in the contending debates on secularism and
caste politics interactions simultaneously giving an understanding of the
changing nature of the Indian state from its developmental and welfare
perspectives.
| Course Status : | Completed |
| Course Type : | Core |
| Language for course content : | English |
| Duration : | 15 weeks |
| Category : |
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| Credit Points : | 5 |
| Level : | Undergraduate |
| Start Date : | 15 Jan 2024 |
| End Date : | 30 Apr 2024 |
| Enrollment Ends : | 29 Feb 2024 |
| Exam Date : | 25 May 2024 IST |
| Shift - II : | 3PM - 6PM |
Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.
Week 1
1. Origin and Development of the Indian party
system
2. Nature and trends of Indian party system
3. Regional parties: role and significance in
Indian federalism
4. Political defection in India
Week 2
1. Coalition politics and parties
2. Role of opposition parties in Indian
parliamentary system
3. Determinants of voting behaviour: Populism
4. Caste as a determinant of voting behaviour
Week 3
1. Ethnicity Region & Language as determinants
of voting behaviour
2. Class as a determinant of voting behaviour
3. Gender as a determinant of voting
behaviour
4. Voting behaviour of Rural-Urban India
Week 4
1. Religion and voting behaviour
2. Determinants of voting behaviour:
Cult/Charisma/Personality
3. Regionalism in India: a conceptual
analysis
4. Regionalism and Indian federalism
Week 5
1. Accommodation of regional aspirations—Linguistic
reorganization
2. Regional aspirations: Case study of Northeast
India
3. Autonomy and secessionism: Case of Punjab and
Nagaland
4. Statehood and Sub-regional movements: Jharkhand,
Chattisgarh, and Uttarakhand
Week 6
1. Autonomy movements: Bodo homeland movement and
the Gorkhaland movement
2. Impact of globalization on regional movements:
Telangana
3. Exploring the nature of identity politics in India
4. Meaning and nature of communalism
Week 7
1. Variants of communal politics in post
independent India
2. Factors responsible for the growth of communal
politics in India
3. Hindu nationalism: a historical analysis
4. Rise of Hindutva politics in India: contemporary
scenario
Week 8
1. Indian aspect of secularism
2. Religion-State relationship: implications for
right to equality
3. Caste as an identity in India
4. Dominant and entrenched caste and their role in
Indian politics: a contemporary scenario
Week 9
1. Caste and Indian constitutional provisions
2. Electoral politics and the changing nature of
caste
3. Political mobilization of caste identities in
India
4. Caste and politics: a changing scenario
Week 10
1. Affirmative Action Policies in India: Sources,
directions and implications for class, caste and tribes
2. A case of Affirmative Action in favour of the
Adivasis: The Forest Rights Act
3. The Reservation Policy in India
4. Affirmative Action for women
Week 11
1. Securing social justice through Affirmative
Action
2. Role of Affirmative Action in achieving health
equity in India
3. Nature of the Indian state from Independence to
1990
4. Nature of the Indian state: post-liberalization
era (1990 onwards)
Week 12
1. Relevance of the concept of Welfare State in
India
2. Poverty and Developmental issues in India
3. The Indian state and its use of coercive
power
4. The Indian State: Welfare versus
Development
Week 13
1. Electoral process in India
2. Election commission and the political process in
India
Week 14
1. Social welfare
policies and the state in India
2. Development
welfare and the state in India --- a study of mgnrega
Week 15
1. Development and social
welfare: health
Dr. Jhumpa
Mukherjee
(Gold Medalist), PhD is Assistant Professor of Political Science at St.
Xavier’s College, Kolkata. She is the author of Conflict Resolution in Multicultural Societies: The Indian Experience
(Sage Publications, New Delhi and London 2014) and The World of Human Rights (Concept Publications, New Delhi 2014).
She has contributed chapters in edited books and has published articles on
contemporary social and political issues in national and international journals
and has participated in national and international conferences. Her areas of research interest include Indian Politics,
Comparative federalism and human rights.
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