PSIR Optional Foundation Batch – CSE 2022
By Tejal Khandelwal Ma’am
Start Date: 20 December 2021
Delivery Mode: Online & Offline
Duration: 100 Classes
Validity: 30 September, 2022
Course Fee: ₹ 34,000 + GST
Features of the Program:
The aim of this program is to build your basic concepts, provide you a direction to approach the subject, discuss all major topics deeply, focus on clarity of thoughts, develop inter-linkages between topics, ensure you understand the demand of the exam to write answers.
- Classes five days a week (Monday to Friday)
- Recorded classes can be watched a maximum of 2 times
- Appropriate resource support for both offline and online students with availability of Handouts before classes.
- Personalized Doubt Solving Session with faculty after class every day
- Daily answer writing in class
- Linking topics with previous year questions even in regular batch so students can develop basic aspects of answer writing
- Coverage of current topics
- NO DICTATION IN CLASS
- Available in both online/offline modules
- International Relations (Section B – Paper-II) to be covered after Preliminary –Students writing mains do not miss out on the two months gap and update
- Duration: Full Syllabus in 100 classes
- FOUR MINI TESTS to be provided for Revision
- Timeline:
20th December to 1st April – Paper I and Section A (Paper-II)
07th June to 30th June – Section B (Paper-II)
For complete Terms and Conditions scroll to the bottom
Schedule of Classes:
| Day | Syllabus |
| Day 1 – 20th December | Western Political Thought: |
| Day 2- 21st December | Plato |
| Day 3- 22nd December | Plato |
| Day 4- 23rd December | Aristotle |
| Day 5- 24th December | Aristotle |
| Day 6- 27th December | Machiavelli |
| Day 7- 28th December | Hobbes |
| Day 8- 29th December | Locke |
| Day 9- 30th December | John Stuart Mill |
| Day 10- 2nd January 2022 | Marx |
| Day 11- 3rd January 2022 | Marx continued |
| Day 12- 4th January | Gramsci, |
| Day 13- 5th January 2022 | Hannah Arendt |
| Day 14- 6th January 2022 | Political Ideologies: Liberalism |
| Day 15- 7th January 2022 | Socialism, Marxism |
| Day 16- 10th January 2022 | Fascism, Feminism |
| Day 17- 11th January 2022 | Rights: Meaning and theories; different kinds of rights; concept of Human Rights. |
| Day 18- 12th January 2022 | Equality: Social, political and economic relationship between equality and freedom; Affirmative action (will be covered with IGP section) |
| Day 19- 13th January 2022 | Justice: Conceptions of justice with special reference to Rawl’s theory of justice and its communitarian critiques |
| Day 20- 14th January 2022 | Justice Continued |
| Day 21- 17th January 2022 | Justice Continued |
| Day 22- 18th January 2022 | Theories of the state: Liberal, Neoliberal, Marxist, Pluralist, Post-colonial and feminist. |
| Day 23- 19th January 2022 | Theories of the state continued |
| Day 24- 20th January 2022 | Democracy: Classical and contemporary theories; different models of democracy’ representative, participatory and deliberative. |
| Day 25- 21st January 2022 | Democracy continued |
| Day 26- 24th January 2022 | Concept of power, hegemony, ideology and legitimacy |
| Day 27- 25th January 2022 | Political theory meaning and approaches |
| Day 28- 26th January 2022 | Indian Political Thought:
Ancient Indian Political Thought: Dharamshastra, Arthashastra and Buddhist traditions |
| Day 29- 27th January 2022 | Ancient Indian Political thought continued |
| Day 30 – 28th January 2022 | Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Sri Aurobindo |
| Day 31- 31st January 2022 | M.K. Gandhi |
| Day 32- 1st February 2022 | B.R. Ambedkar |
| Day 33- 2nd February 2022 | M.N. Roy |
| Day 34- 3rd February 2022 | Indian Nationalism: a. Political Strategies of India’s Freedom struggle : constitutionalism to mass Satyagraha, Non-cooperation |
| Day 35- 4th February 2022 | Civil Disobedience ; millitant and revolutionary movements, Peasant and workers’ movements |
| Day 36- 7th February 2022 | Perspectives on Indian National Movement: Liberal, Socialist and Marxist; Radical humanist and Dalit. |
| Day 37- 8th February 2022 | Making of the Indian Constitution: Legacies of the British rule; different social and political perspectives. |
| Day 38- 9th February 2022
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Salient Features of the Indian Constitution:
The Preamble |
| Day 39- 10th February 2022 | Fundamental Rights |
| Day 40- 11th February 2022 | FR continued |
| Day 41- 14th February 2022
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Duties and Directive Principles
Parliamentary System and Amendment Procedures |
| Day 42- 15th February 2022 | Judicial Review and Basic Structure doctrine. |
| Day 43- 16th February 2022 | Principal Organs of the Union Government: Envisaged role and actual working of the Executive, Legislature and Supreme Court. |
| Day 44- 17th February 2022
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Principal Organs of the State Government: Envisaged role and actual working of the Executive, Legislature and High Courts. |
| Day 45- 18th February 2022
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Grassroots Democracy: Panchayati Raj and Municipal Government; Significance of 73rd and 74th Amendments; Grassroot movements |
| Day 46- 21st February 2022
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Federalism: Constitutional provisions; changing nature of centre-state relations; integrationist tendencies and regional aspirations; inter-state disputes. |
| Day 47- 22nd February 2022 | Federalism continued |
| Day 48 –23rd February 2022 | Party System: National and regional political parties, Ideological and social bases of parties; Patterns of coalition politics; Trends in electoral behaviour; changing socio- economic profile of Legislators. |
| Day 49 – 24th February 2022 | Party System continued and Pressure groups |
| Day 50- 25th February 2022
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Caste, Religion and Ethnicity in Indian Politics |
| Day 51 – 28th February 2022
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Planning and Economic Development : Nehruvian and Gandhian perspectives; Role of planning and public sector;
Green Revolution, Land reforms and Agrarian relations; Liberalization and Economic reforms. |
| Day 52 -1st March 2022
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Social Movements:
Ø Civil liberties and human rights movements Ø Women’s movements Ø Environmentalist movements
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| Day 53 -2nd March 2022
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Statutory Institutions/Commissions:
Election Commission, Comptroller and Auditor General, Finance Commission, Union Public Service Commission, National Commission for Scheduled Castes, National Commission for scheduled Tribes Statutory Institutions/Commissions: National Commission for Women; National Human Rights Commission, National Commission for Minorities, National Backward Classes Commission
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| Day 54 – 3rd March 2022 | Comparative Politics: Nature and major approaches; political economy and political sociology perspectives; limitations of the comparative method.1. Comparative Politics continued |
| Day 55 – 4th March 2022
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State in comparative perspective: Characteristics and changing nature of the State in capitalist and socialist economies, and advanced industrial and developing societies.
State in comparative perspective continued |
| Day 56 – 7th March 2022 | Politics of Representation and Participation: Political parties, Pressure groups |
| Day 57 – 8th March
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Politics of Representation and Participation: Social movements in advanced industrial and developing societies. |
| Day 58 – 9th March | Globalisation: Responses from developed and developing societies. |
| Day 59 -10th March
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Approaches to the Study of International Relations: Idealist, Realist, Marxist, Functionalist and Systems theory. |
| Day 60 -11th March | Approaches to the Study of International Relations continued |
| DAY 61- 14th March
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Key concepts in International Relations: National interest, Security and power; Balance of power and deterrence; Transnational actors and collective security; World capitalist economy and globalisation. |
| DAY 62- 15th March | Key concepts in International Relations continued |
| DAY 63 -16th March | Key concepts in International Relations continued |
| DAY 64- 17th March | Changing International Political Order:
Rise of super powers; strategic and ideological Bipolarity, arms race and Cold War; nuclear threat; |
| DAY 65 – 20th March | Changing International Political Order: |
| DAY 66 -21st March | Non-aligned movement : Aims and achievements
India’s Contribution to the Non-Alignment Movement: Different phases; current role |
| DAY 67- 22nd March | Collapse of the Soviet Union; Unipolarity and American hegemony; relevance of non-alignment in the contemporary world. |
| DAY 68- 23rd March | Evolution of the International Economic System:
Ø From Brettonwoods to WTO Ø Socialist economies and the CMEA (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance) Ø Third World demand for new international economic order Ø Globalisation of the world economy Ø Leadership role in the demand for NIEO and WTO negotiations. |
| DAY 69- 24th March | Evolution of the International Economic System continued |
| Day 70 -25th March | United Nations:
Ø Envisaged role and actual record Ø Specialized UN agencies-aims and functioning Ø Need for UN reforms |
| Day 71- 28th March | India and the UN System: Role in UN Peace-keeping; demand for Permanent Seat in the Security Council. |
| Day 72 – 29th March | Regionalisation of World Politics: EU, ASEAN, APEC, SAARC (Regional Co-operation: SAARC’ past performance and future prospects, South Asia as a Free Trade Area.) , NAFTA. |
| Day 73- 30th March | Regionalisation of World Politics continued |
| Day 74- 31st March | Contemporary Global Concerns: Democracy, human rights, environment, gender justice, terrorism, nuclear proliferation. |
| Day 75- 1st April | Contemporary Global Concerns continued |
| Day 76- 2nd April | In case due to any changes , pending topics to be continued . |
| Day 77- 3rd April | In case due to any changes , pending topics to be continued |
| Day 78 – 4th April | Test one – Section A- Paper One |
| Day 79- 5th April | Test two- Section B- Paper One |
| Day 80- 6th April | Test three- Section A- Paper Two |
| Day 81- 7th April | Test four Section B- Paper Two |
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PRELIMINARY STUDY BREAK 2nd APRIL to 6th JUNE 2022 |
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| Day 82- 7th June | 1. Indian Foreign Policy: Determinants of foreign policy; institutions of policy-making; continuity and change. |
| Day 83- 8th June | World Order and Role of India |
| Day 84 -9th June | 3. India and South Asia |
| Day 85 -10th June | 3. India and South Asia |
| Day 86- 13th June | 3. India and South Asia |
| Day 87- 14th June | d. Impediments to regional co-operation: river water disputes; illegal cross-border migration; ethnic conflicts and insurgencies; border disputes. |
| Day 88 -15th June | d. Impediments to regional co-operation continued |
| Day 89- 16th June | c. India’s “Look East” policy- Japan |
| Day 90- 17th June | West Asia |
| Day 91- 20th June | West Asia Continued and Central Asia |
| Day 92- 21st June | India’s Ocean Policy
Indo- Pacific Region |
| Day 93 – 22nd June | India and the Global Centres of Power: USA |
| Day 94- 23rd June | China |
| Day 95- 24th June | China Continued and Russia |
| Day 96- 25th June | India and the Global South: Relations with Africa and Latin America |
| Day 97- 26th June | India and the Nuclear Question: Changing perceptions and policy |
| Day 98- 27th June | PENDING TOPICS (from Paper Two- if any) |
| Day 99- 28th June | PENDING TOPICS (from Paper Two- if any) |
| Day 100- 29th June | PENDING TOPICS (from Paper Two- if any) |
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