Sir Syed Ahmad Khan - Indian Political Thought | Political Science Optional For UPSC

Decoding PSIR as an Optional:
The optional consists of two papers -
Paper I - Political Theory and Indian Politics
Paper II - Comparative Politics and International Relations
Syllabus
Paper - I: Political Theory and Indian Politics:
PART - A: Political Theory and Thinkers
Political Theory: meaning and approaches.
Theories of the State: Liberal, Neoliberal, Marxist, Pluralist, Post-colonial and feminist.
Justice: Conceptions of justice with special reference to Rawl’s theory of justice and its communitarian critiques.
Equality: Social, political and economic; relationship between equality and freedom; Affirmative action.
Rights: Meaning and theories; different kinds of rights; concept of Human Rights.
Democracy: Classical and contemporary theories; different models of democracy - representative, participatory and deliberative.
Concept of power, hegemony, ideology and legitimacy.
Political Ideologies: Liberalism, Socialism, Marxism, Fascism, Gandhism and Feminism.
Indian Political Thought : Dharamshastra, Arthashastra and Buddhist traditions; Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Sri Aurobindo, M.K. Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, M.N. Roy .
Western Political Thought: Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, John S. Mill, Marx, Gramsci, Hannah Arendt.

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