SECOND SEMESTER
Course DSC 202
INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
1. Framing of Indian Constitution: An outline; Philosophy of the
Constitution: The Preamble, Salient Features of the Constitution.
2. Fundamental Rights; Fundamental Duties, Directive Principles of
State Policy, Amendment of the Constitution
3. Executive: Union and the States. (a) President, Prime Minister,
and the Council of Ministers. (b) Governor, Chief Minister and the Council of
Ministers. (c) Emergency Provisions.
4. Legislature: Union and the States (a) Council of States and the
House of the People - Law-making procedure and Amendment– Speaker (b) State
Legislature– composition and functions.
5. Judiciary: Supreme Court and the High Courts– composition
and jurisdiction
6. Relations between the Union and the States:
Legislative, Administrative, Financial-- Election Commission: composition and
functions—Decentralisation : Rural and Urban local bodies.
7. Politics: Party system in
India:
main features–national parties, regional parties- Coalition Politics: nature
and trends- Groups in Indian politics: Business, Working Class and Peasants --
Religion in Indian politics– secularism and the Indian state--Caste in Indian
politics– the issue of reservation.
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