Date

Test

Syllabus

01-Sep-24

Test-1

Western Political Thought: Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, John S. Mill, Marx, Gramsci.

08-Sep-24

Test-2

Western Political Thought: Hannah Arendt

Indian Political Thought: Dharmashastra, Arthashastra, and Buddhist Traditions; Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Sri Aurobindo, M. K. Gandhi, B. R. Ambedkar, M. N. Roy.

15-Sep-24

Test-3

Theories of state: Liberal, Neo-liberal, Marxist, Pluralist, Post-colonial, and Feminist.

Political Ideologies: Liberalism, Socialism.

22-Sep-24

Test-4

Political Ideologies: Marxism, Fascism, Gandhism and Feminism

Democracy: Classical and contemporary theories; different models of democracy—representative, participatory and deliberative.

29-Sep-24

Test-5

Political Theory: meaning and approaches;

Political Theories: Justice, Equality, Rights, Concept of power.

06-Oct-24

Test-6

Political Strategies of India’s Freedom Struggle: Constitutionalism to mass Satyagraha, Non-cooperation, Civil Disobedience; Militant and Revolutionary Movements, Peasant and Workers Movements.
Perspectives on Indian National Movement; Liberal, Socialist, and Marxist; Radical Humanist and Dalit.

Making of the Indian Constitution: Legacies of the British rule; different social and political perspectives.

13-Oct-24

Test-7

Principal Organs of the Union Government: Envisaged role and actual working of the Executive, Legislature, and Supreme Court.
Principal Organs of the State Government: Envisaged role and actual working of the Executive, Legislature, and High Courts. 

Salient Features of the Indian Constitution: The Preamble, Fundamental Rights and Duties, Directive Principles; Parliamentary System and Amendment Procedures; Judicial Review and Basic Structure doctrine.

20-Oct-24

Test-8

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, National Commission for Women; National Human Rights Commission, National Commission for Minorities, National Backward Classes Commission.

27-Oct-24

Test-9

Caste, religions and Ethnicity in Indian politics;

Party System: National and regional political parties, ideological and social bases of parties; Patterns of coalition politics; Pressure groups, trends in electoral behaviour; changing socio-economic profile of Legislators. 

Social Movements: Civil liberties and human rights movements; women’s movements; environmentalist movements; Grassroot movements.

03-Nov-24

Test-10

Grassroots Democracy: Panchayati Raj and Municipal Government; Significance of 73rd and 74th Amendments;

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.

Federalism: Constitutional provisions; changing nature of centre-state relations; integrationist tendencies and regional aspirations; inter-state disputes.

10-Nov-24

Test-11

Full Length Test- Paper I

17-Nov-24

Test-12

Comparative Politics: Nature and major approaches; Limitations of the comparative method.

State in Comparative Perspective: Characteristics and changing nature of the State in capitalist and socialist economies, and advanced industrial and developing societies.

Politics of Representation and Participation: Political parties, pressure groups and social movements in advanced industrial and developing societies.

24-Nov-24

Test-13

Globalisation: Responses from developed and developing societies.

Approaches to the Study of International Relations: Idealist, Realist, Marxist, Functionalist and Systems theory.

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.

01-Dec-24

Test-14

Changing International Political Order:
(a) Rise of superpowers; Strategic and ideological Bipolarity, arms race and cold war; Nuclear threat;
(b) Non-aligned movement: Aims and achievements.
(c) Collapse of the Soviet Union; Unipolarity and American hegemony; Relevance of non-alignment in the contemporary world. 

Evolution of the International Economic System: From Bretton woods to WTO; Socialist economies and the CMEA (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance); Third World demand for new international economic order; Globalisation of the world economy.

India and Global South: Leadership role in demand for NIEO and WTO negotiations.

08-Dec-24

Test-15

United Nations: Envisaged role and actual record; Specialized UN agencies—aims and functioning; the need for UN reforms.

Contemporary Global Concerns: Democracy, human rights, environment, gender justice terrorism, nuclear proliferation.

15-Dec-24

Test-16

Indian Foreign Policy: Determinants of foreign policy; the institutions of policy-making; continuity and change. 

India’s Contribution to the Non-Alignment Movement: Different phases; current role. 

India and South Asia; ASEAN

22-Dec-24

Test-17

Regionalisation of World Politics: EU, APEC, AARC, NAFTA.

India and Global centres of power: USA, EU, Japan, China and Russia.

29-Dec-24

Test-18

India and the UN System: Role in UN Peace-keeping; Demand for Permanent Seat in the Security Council.

India and the Nuclear Question: Changing perceptions and policy.

Demand for reform of Multilateral institutions;

India and Global South: Africa; Indo-Pacific

05-Jan-25

Test-19

Recent developments in Indian Foreign Policy: India’s position on the recent crises; Vision of a new world order.

India and Global South: Latin America, Central Asia.

12-Jan-25

Test-20

Full Length Test- Paper II