Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Process in India Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
Syllabus for Political Process in India
Part of this reading list is printed in Devanagari, which the University's own PDF does not release as reliable text. Those entries are not set here; they are in the document above, as she printed them.
Module 1: REORGANIZATION OF INDIAN POLITICS
- 1 Reorganization of States
- 2 Regional Disparities and sub regionalism
- 3 Demands for statehood
Module 2: POLITICAL PARTIES
- 1 Evolution and development of party system in India
- 2 National parties and regional parties
- 3 Coalition Politics
Module 3: IDENTITY POLITICS
- 1 Religion
- 2 Caste identity and caste mobilization
- 3 Gender
Module 4: ELECTORAL POLITICS AND PROCESSES
- 1 Election Commission and Electoral System
- 2 Overview of Lok Sabha Elections since Independence
- 3 Voting Behaviour and Emerging Trends
Reading List
- 1 Abbas, H., Kumar, Ranjay, and Alam, Mohammad Aftab, Indian Government and Politics, Pearson, 2011.
- 2 Chakravarty, Bidyut, and Pande, Rajendra Kumar, Indian Government and Politics, Sage Publications, 2008.
- 3 Chandoke, Neera, and Priyadarshi, Praveen, Contemporary India, Pearson, 2009.
- 4 Jayal, Nirja G., and Mehta, BhanuPratap, The Oxford Companion to Politics in India, OUP, 2011
- 5 Singh, M. P., and Saxena, Rekha, Indian Politics, PHI, 2011
- 6 B. Chandra, A. Mukherjee and M. Mukherjee (2008), Consolidation of India as a Nation (I), in India Since Independence. New Delhi: Penguin.
- 7 B. Chandra, A. Mukherjee and M. Mukherjee (2008), Consolidation of India as a Nation (II), the Linguistic Organization of the States, in India Since Independence. New Delhi: Penguin.
- 8 V.P. Menon (1956), CH I- Setting the Stage and Ch XXV- The Cost of Integration, in The Story of the Integration of the Indian States, Orient Longman
- 9 S.K. Chaube (2010), Union Government- 1: The Executive, in The Making and Working of Indian Constitution, NBT, India
- 10 S.K. Chaube (2010), Union Government 2: The Legislature, in The Making and Working of Indian Constitution, NBT, India
- 11 Thiruvengadam (2018), The Executive and the Parliament, in The Constitution of India, a Contextual Analysis, Hart Publishing
- 12 R. Kothari (1970) ‘Introduction’, in Caste in Indian Politics, Delhi: Orient Longman, pp. 3-25.
- 13 S. Deshpande (2016) ‘Caste in and as Indian Democracy’, New Delhi: Seminar, No.677, pp. 54-58.
- 14 S. Jhodka (2010) ‘Caste and Politics’. In NirajaJayal and PratapBhanu Mehta (eds). The Oxford companion to politics in India, pp.154-67.
- 15 Raju J Das (2019). ‘Class Relations, Class Struggle, and the State in India’. In Critical Reflections on Economy and Politics in India: A class Theory Perspective. Leiden; Boston: Brill, pp. 233-282
- 16 T. Pantham, (2004) ‘Understanding Indian Secularism: Learning from its Recent Critics’, in
- 17 R. Vora and S. Palshikar (eds.) Indian Democracy: Meanings and Practices, New Delhi: Sage, pp. 235-256.
- 18 N. Chandhoke, (2010) ‘Secularism’, in P. Mehta and N. Jayal (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Politics in India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 333-346
- 19 R. Bhargava (ed.) (2006) Secularism and its Critics, Oxford India Paperbacks.C. Jaffrelot and G. Verniers (2020), ‘A New Party System of a New Political System?’, Contemporary South Asia, Vol.28, No.2, pp. 141-154.
- 20 M. Vaishnav and J. Hintson (2019), ‘The Dawn of India’s Fourth Party System’, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Paper, 5 September.
- 21 P. Chibber and R. Verma (2019), ‘The Rise of the Second Dominant Party System in India: BJPs New Social Coalition in 2019’, Studies in Politics, 7 (2): 131-148 References in Marathi: