BOOKS

AND AUTHORS


* Alam. J., India: Living with Modernity, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1999.
* Mehta.V.R. and Thomas Pantham, eds., Political Ideas in Modern India,
Sage, Delhi 2006.
Bhattacharya Sabyasachi, History of Ideas and Social Sciences, Oxford
University Press, Delhi, 2007.
Chandra Bipan, Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India, Orient
Longman, Delhi, 1979.
Frankel Francine, Zoya Hasan, Rajeev Bhargava and Balveer Arora, eds.,
Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy, Oxford
University Press, Delhi, 2000. Greenfield Liah., Nationalism: Five Roads to
Modernity, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1992.
Panikkar K.M., In Defence of Liberalism, Asia Publishing House, Bombay,
1962.
Pantham Thomas and Kenneth Deutsch, Social and Political Thought in India,
Sage, New Delhi, 1984.
SECTION 2
* Gandhi M.K., Hind Swaraj or Home Rule, Navjivan Press, Ahmadabad,
1946.
* Golwalkar M.S., We or Our Nationhood Defined, Jagaran Publication,
Bangalore. _____________, Bunch of Thoughts, Jagaran Prakashan,
Bangalore, 1966.
* Kaviraj Sudipta, ‘The Structure of Nationalist Discourse’ in T.V. Satyamurthy,
ed., State and Nation in the context of Social Change, Oxford University
Press, Delhi, 1994.
* Nehru Jawaharlal, Discovery of India, Asian Publishing House, Bombay,
1972.
* Parekh Bhikhu, Gandhi's Political Philosophy: A Critical Examination, Ajanta
Publication, Delhi, 1986.
* Tagore Rabindranath, Nationalism, Macmillan, London, 1950.
* Lokymanya Tilak, Centenary Publication, PPH, Delhi.
*Iqbal Mohammad, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam,
Gulshan Publication, Srinagar, 2003.
Ambedkar B.R., Writing and Speeches, Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, Education
Department, Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai.
Balkrishnan Gopal, ed., Mapping the Nation, Verso, New York, 1996.
Bapat Ram, ‘Pandita Ramabai: Faith and Reason in the shadow of the East
and West’, in Dalmia Vasudha and H Von Stietencron, eds., Representing
Hinduism, Sage, Delhi, 1995. Bhattacharya Sabyasachi, History of Ideas and
Social Sciences, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2007.
Gupta Kalyan Sen, The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore, Ashgate
Publishing Company, Burlington VT, 2005.
Hall John. A., The State of the Nation: Ernest Gellner and the Theory of
Nationalism, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998.
Inamdar N.R., ‘Poltical Ideas of Lokmanya Tilak’ in Thomas Pantham and
Kenneth L. Deutsch, eds., Political Thought in Modern India, Sage, New Delhi,
1984.
Israt Waheed, Hundred Years of Iqbal Studies, Pakistan Academy of Letters,
Islamabad, 2003.
Iyer Raghavan, Collected Works of Gandhi, Three Vols, Oxford University
Press, Oxford.

Kaviraj Sudipta, ‘The Reversal of Orientalism: Bhudev Mukhopadhyay and

the Project of an Indigenist Social Theory’, in Vasudha Dalmia and H. Von
Stietencron eds, Representing Hinduism, Sage, Delhi, 1995.
Lederle Matthew, Philosophical Trends in Modern Maharashtra, Popular
Prakashan Bombay, 1976.
Mehta V.R. and Thomas Pantham, eds., Political Ideas in Modern India, Sage,
Delhi, 2006.
Nandy Ashis, Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism,
Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1983.
Nehru Jawaharlal, Selected Writings , Orient Longman, Delhi, Vol.2, 1975.
Parekh Bhikhu and Thomas Pantham, eds., Political Discourse: Exploration in
Indian and Western Political Thought, Sage, Delhi, 1987.
Raju Raghuram, Debating Gandhi, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2006.
Rao B. Shiva, The Framing of the Constitution, Vol.I.
Rodrigues Valerian, ed., Selected Writings of BR Ambedkar, Oxford University
Press, Delhi, 2002.
Roy M.N., India in Transition, 1922.
Rumëz-i Bekhudâ, The Mysteries of Selflessness, Arthur J. Arberry (trans.), John
Murray, London, 1953.
Sen Krishna and Tapati Gupta, eds., Tagore and Modernity, Smiriti
publication, 2007. Shah A.B., ed, The Letters and Correspondence of Pandita
Ramabai, Maharashtra State Board of Letters and Culture, Mumbai, 1977.
Shakir Moin, From Khilafat to Partition: Muslim Thought in India, Aurangabad,
1977. Vora Rajendra, ‘Liberalism in Maharashtra, Ranade and Jotirao Phule’,
in T. Pantham and Kenneth Deutsch, eds, Political Thought in Modern India,
Sage, New Delhi, 1986.
SECTION 3
Aloysius G., Nationalism without a Nation in India, Oxford University Press,
Delhi, 1997. Appadorai A., Documents on Political Thought in Modern India,
Vol. I&II, Bombay, Oxford University Press, 1973 and 1976.

Frankel Francine, Zoya Hasan, Rajeev Bhargava , Balveer Arora, eds.,

Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy, Oxford
University Press, New Delhi, 2000. Ganguli B.N., Concept of Equality: The
Nineteenth Century Indian Debate, IIAS, Shimla, 1975.
Khilnani Sunil, The Idea of India, Penguin, Delhi, 1997.
Kohli Atul, The Success of India’s Democracy, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, 2001.
SECTION 4
* Chakrabarti Dipesh, ‘Open space, Public space: Garbage, Modernity and
India’, South Asia 14, no. 1 (1991): 15–31.
* Chaterjee Partha, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative
Discourse, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1986.
* Nandy Ashis, Traditions, Tyranny and Utopia, Oxford University Press,
Delhi, 1987. Breckenridge Carol A. and Peter Van Der Veer, eds., Orientalism
and Post colonial Predicament, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1993.
Chakrabarti Dipesh, Provincializing Europe: Post­colonial Thought and
Historical Difference, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2000.
Devy G.N. and Fred Dallymayr, eds., Between Tradition and Modernity:
India's Search for Identity: A Twentieth Century Anthology, Sage, Delhi, 1996.
Dirks Nicholas, Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India,
Permanent Black, Delhi, 2002.
Lal Vinay, The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India,
Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2003.
Parekh Bhikhu, Colonialism, Tradition and Reform, Sage, Delhi, 1998.







Austin Granville, The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation, Oxford
University Press, Delhi, 1966.
Austin Granville, Working a Democratic Constitution: A History of the Indian
Experience, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1999.
Basu D.D., Introduction to the Constitution of India, Prentice Hall, New Delhi,
2008. Bhargava Rajeev, ed., Politics and Ethics of the Indian Constitution,
Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2008.
Rao Shiva B., The Framing of India’s Constitution, A Study and Select
Documents, Tripathi, Bombay, 1968. Baxi Upendra, The Supreme Court in
Indian Politics, Eastern Book Company, New Delhi, 1980.
Hasan Zoya et al., eds., India’s Living Constitution: Ideas, Practices,
Controversies, Permanent Black, New Delhi, 2002.
Kashyap Subash, ed., Constitutional Reforms: Problems, Prospects and
Perspectives, Radha Publications, New Delhi, 2004.
Kirpal B.N. et al., eds., Supreme but not Infallible: Essays in Honour of the
Supreme Court of India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2000.
Sathe S.P., Judicial Activism in India: Transgressing Borders and Enforcing
Limits, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2002.
Singh Ujjwal Kumar, State, Democracy and Anti­Terror Laws, Sage
Publications, New Delhi, 2007.
Manor James, ed., Nehru to the Nineties: The Changing Office of Prime
Minister in India, Viking Press, New Delhi, 1994.
Mehra Ajay K. and V. A. Pai Panandiker, The Indian Cabinet: A Study in
Governance, Konark Publishers, New Delhi, 1996.
Morris­Jones W.H., Parliament in India, University of Pennsylvania Press,
Philadelphia, PA, 1957.
Rudolph Lloyd and Susanne, The Realm of Institutions: State Formation and
Institutional Change, Vol II, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2008.
Bhagat A.K., Elections and Electoral Reforms, Vikas Publications, New Delhi,
1996. Lyngdoh J. M., Chronicle of an Impossible Election: The Election
Commission and the 2002 Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, Penguin , New
Delhi, 2004.

Arora Balveer and Douglas Verney, eds., Multiple Identities in a Single State:
Indian Federalism in Comparative Perspective, Konark Publishers, New Delhi,
1995.
Brass Paul R., The Politics of India since Independence, Cambridge
University Press, London, 1991.
Kapur Devesh and Pratap B Mehta., eds., Public Institutions in India:
Performance and Design, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2007.
Mukherji Nirmal and Balveer Arora, eds., Federalism in India: Origins and
Development, Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, 1992.
Saez Lawrence, Federalism without a Centre: The Impact of Political and
Economic Reforms on India’s Federal System, Sage, New Delhi, 2002.
Frankel Francine et al., eds., Transforming India: Social and Political
Dynamics of Democracy, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2000.
Galanter Marc, Law and Society in Modern India, edited with an introduction
by Rajeev Dhavan, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1989.
Hardgrave Robert L., India: Government and Politics in a Developing Nation,
Harcourt, Jovanovich, New York, 1980.
Keith A.B., Constitutional History of India, Methuen and Co, London, 1936.
Kohli Atul, ed., The Success of India’s Democracy, Cambridge University
Press, London, 2001.
Morris­Jones W.H., The Government and Politics in India, B.I. Publications,
New Delhi, 1971.
Noorani A.G., Constitutional Questions in India: The President, Parliament
and the States, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2000.
Pylee M.V., India’s Constitution, Asia Publishing House, New Delhi, 1962.
Rao K.V. and K.M. Munshi, Parliamentary Democracy of India, The World
Press Private Ltd, Calcutta, 1965.
Weiner Myron, The Indian Paradox: Essays in Indian Politics, edited by
Ashutosh Varshney Ashutosh, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1989.




Brass Paul, The Politics of India since Independence, Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge, 1994, Introduction.
Jenkins Rob, Democratic politics and Economic Reform in India, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, 1999.
Kaviraj Sudipta, “A Critique of the Passive Revolution”, Economic and political
Weekly, Vol. 23, No. 45/47, Special Number, Nov. 1988.
Rudolph Lloyd and Susanne, In Pursuit of Lakshmi: Political Economy of the
State in India, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1987.
Satyamurthy T.V., ed., State and Nation in the Context of Social Change, vol.
l, Oxford University Press, Delhi, l994.

Adeney Katherine and Saez Lawrence, eds., Coalition Politics and Hindu
Nationalism, Routledge, London, 2005.
Brass Paul R. and Marcus F. Franda, (eds), Radical Politics in South Asia,
MIT Press, Cambridge, 1973.
Hasan Zoya ed., Parties and Party Politics in India, Oxford University Press,
New Delhi, 2002.
Kothari Rajni, State against Democracy: In Search of Humane Governance,
Ajanta, Delhi, 1988.
Weiner Myron, Party Politics in India: The Development of a Multi­Party
System, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1957.

Adeney Katherine and Saez Lawrence, eds., Coalition Politics and Hindu
Nationalism, Routledge, London, 2005.
Brass Paul R. and Marcus F. Franda, (eds), Radical Politics in South Asia,
MIT Press, Cambridge, 1973.
Hasan Zoya ed., Parties and Party Politics in India, Oxford University Press,
New Delhi, 2002.
Kothari Rajni, State against Democracy: In Search of Humane Governance,
Ajanta, Delhi, 1988.
Weiner Myron, Party Politics in India: The Development of a Multi­Party
System, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1957.

Adeney Katherine and Saez Lawrence, eds., Coalition Politics and Hindu
Nationalism, Routledge, London, 2005.
Brass Paul R. and Marcus F. Franda, (eds), Radical Politics in South Asia,
MIT Press, Cambridge, 1973.
Hasan Zoya ed., Parties and Party Politics in India, Oxford University Press,
New Delhi, 2002.
Kothari Rajni, State against Democracy: In Search of Humane Governance,
Ajanta, Delhi, 1988.
Weiner Myron, Party Politics in India: The Development of a Multi­Party
System, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1957.

Adeney Katherine and Saez Lawrence, eds., Coalition Politics and Hindu
Nationalism, Routledge, London, 2005.
Brass Paul R. and Marcus F. Franda, (eds), Radical Politics in South Asia,
MIT Press, Cambridge, 1973.
Hasan Zoya ed., Parties and Party Politics in India, Oxford University Press,
New Delhi, 2002.
Kothari Rajni, State against Democracy: In Search of Humane Governance,
Ajanta, Delhi, 1988.
Weiner Myron, Party Politics in India: The Development of a Multi­Party
System, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1957.
Adeney Katherine and Saez Lawrence, eds., Coalition Politics and Hindu
Nationalism, Routledge, London, 2005.
Brass Paul R. and Marcus F. Franda, (eds), Radical Politics in South Asia,
MIT Press, Cambridge, 1973.
Hasan Zoya ed., Parties and Party Politics in India, Oxford University Press,
New Delhi, 2002.
Kothari Rajni, State against Democracy: In Search of Humane Governance,
Ajanta, Delhi, 1988.
Weiner Myron, Party Politics in India: The Development of a Multi­Party
System, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1957.

PO413N: Indian Politics IV: Development and Public Policy

Bagchi Amiya, ed., Democracy and Development, Macmillan, Basingstoke,
1995.
Dreze Jean and Amartya Sen, India: Development and Participation, Oxford
University Press, New Delhi, 2002.
Frankel Francine, India’s Political Economy, Oxford University Press, New
Delhi, 2005. Haq Mahbubul, Reflections on Human Development, Oxford
University Press, Delhi, 1999. Weiner Myron, 'Political Economy of Industrial
Growth in India' in World Politics, July 1986.

Bardhan Pranab, The Political Economy of Development in India, Oxford

University Press, Delhi, 1984.
Byres Terence J., eds., The State and Development Planning in India, Oxford
University Press, Delhi, 1994.
Chakravarty S., Development Planning: The Indian Experience, Oxford
University Press, Delhi, 1987.
Harris John, 'Comparing Political Regimes across Indian States', in Economic
and Political Weekly, Nov 27, 1999.
Kohli Atul, The State and Poverty in India: The Politics of Reform, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, 1987.
Bardhan Pranab, 'Disjunctures in the Indian Reform Process: Some
Reflections' in Basu Kaushik, ed., India`s Emerging Economy, The MIT Press,
Cambridge, 2004.
Basu Kaushik, ed., India in the Era of Economic Reforms, Oxford University
Press, New Delhi, 2003.
Harris John, Depoliticising Development, Leftword, Delhi, 2004.
Jenkins Rob, Democratic Politics and Economic Reforms in India, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, 1999.
Sachs Jeffrey et al., eds., India in the Era of Economic Reforms, Oxford
University Press, Delhi, 1999.
Agarwal Bina, A Field of One’s Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994.
Bardhan Pranab, 'Decentralization of Governance and Development', The
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16:4, Autumn 2002.
Economic and Political Weekly, Special No on Development, Displacement
and Rehabilitation, June 15, 1998.
Jayal Niraja Gopal, Amit Prakash, Pradeep K Sharma., eds., Local
Governance in India: Decentralization and Beyond, Oxford University Press,
New Delhi, 2006.
Kohli Atul, Democracy and Discontent: India’s Growing Crisis of Governability.
Mooij J., 'Smart Governance? Politics in Policy Processs in Andhra Pradesh',
ODI Working Paper Series, 2003.
Swaminathan Padmini, 'Development Experience in India: Gendered
Perspective on Industrial Growth, Employment and Education' in Social
Scientist, Vol 22, No 3­4, March­ April 1994, PP 60­92.
Weiner Myron, Sons of the Soil: Migration and Ethnic Conflict in India, Oxford
University Press, New Delhi, 1988.
Recommended Readings:
Basu Kaushik ed., India’s Emerging Economy, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2004.
Bhattacharya Dwaipayan, “Politics of Middleness: The Changing Character of
the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Rural West Bengal (1977­1990)” in
Ben Rogaly, Barbara Harriss­White, and Bose Sugata, eds., Sonar Bangla?
Agricultural Growth and the Agrarian Change in West Bengal and
Bangladesh, Sage, New Delhi, 1999.
Chandoke Neera, ‘On the Social Organization of Urban Space: Subversions
and Appropriations’, Social Scientist, Vol 21, No 5/6, May­June 1993, pp.
63­73.
Chatterjee Partha, The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular
Politics in Most of the World, Permanent Black, New Delhi, 2004.
Fernandes Leela, India’s New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of
Economic Reform, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2008.
Heller Patrick, 'Moving the State: The Politics of Democratic Decentralization
in Kerala, South Africa and Porto Alegre', Politics and Society, 29:1, 2001.
Jayal Niraja Gopal, Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism and
Development in Contemporary India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi,
2001.
Jayal Nirja Gopal and Sudha Pai, eds., Democratic Governance in India,
Sage, New Delhi, 2001.
Kalpana K., 'Shifting Trajectories of Micro­Credit' in Economic and Political
Weekly, Dec 17, 2005.
Kishwar Madhu Purnima, Deepening Democracy: Challenges of Governance
and Globalization in India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2005.
Nieten Kristoffel, Views on Development, Three Essays Collective, New Delhi,
2004.
Patel I.G., Glimpses of Indian Economic Policy: An Insider's View, Oxford
University Press, New Delhi, 2002.
Patnaik Prabhat and Utsa Patnaik, “The State, Poverty and Development in
India” in Jayal Niraja and Sudha Pai, eds., Democratic Governance in India:
Challenges of Poverty, Development and Identity, Sage, New Delhi, 2001.
Samaddar Ranabir, ed. Refugees and the State: Practices of Asylum and
Care in India, 1947­2000, Sage, New Delhi, 2003.
Sen Anupam, The State, Industrialization and Class Formation in India,
Routledge, London, 1986.
Sinha Aseema, Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India: A Divided
Leviathan, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2005.
Thomas TM Isaac, RW Franke, Local Democracy and Development: People’s
Campaign for Decentralized Planning in Kerala, Left Word, New Delhi, 2000.
Varshney Ashutosh, Democracy, Development and the Countryside:
Urban­Rural Struggles in India, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1995.

PO414N: Political Philosophy: Key Concepts I

* Calhoun Craig, “Civil Society and Public Sphere”, in Public Culture, Vol 5,
No­2, 1995. * Chandoke Neera, State and Civil Society, Sage, Delhi, 1995.
* Elliot C.M., ed., Civil Society and Democracy, Oxford University Press,
Oxford, 2001.
* Foley Michael and Bob Edwards, “The Paradox of Civil Society”, Journal of
Democracy, Vol­17, No­3, 1996.
* Held David et, al, ed., The Idea of the Modern State, Open Univ Press,
Bristol, 1993.
* Phillips Anne, “Does Feminism Need a Conception of Civil Society” in
Simone Chambers and Will Kymlicka, eds., Alternative Conceptions of Civil
Society, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2002.
Hardt Michael, 'The Withering of Civil Society', Social Text, 45, Winter, No­4,
1995. Kaviraj Sudipta and Sunil Khilnani, eds., Civil Society: History and
Possibilities, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004.
Keane J., Civil Society and the State: New European Perspectives, Verso,
1988.
Mamdani Mahmood, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the
Legacy of Colonialism, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1996.
Meadwell Hudson, “PostModernism No friend of Civil Society”.
Nielson Kai, “Reconsidering Civil Society for Now: Some Somewhat
Gramscian Turnings” in Michael Walzer ed., Toward a Global Civil Society,
Bergham Books, Oxford, 1995.

Sadeq Emir, “Beyond Civil Society”, New Left Review, October 17, 2002.
Walzer Michael, “Equality and Civil Society” in Simone Chambers and Will
Kymlicka, eds., Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society, Princeton University
Press, Princeton, 2002. Wood E.M., 'The Uses and Abuses of Civil Society' in
Ralph Miliband ed., Socialist Register, 1990.

* Gordon Colin et.al, eds., The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality,

University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1991.
* Sarah Joseph, Political Theory and Power, BRILL, Delhi, 1988.
* Lukes Stephen, Power: A Radical Critique, Palgrave Macmillan,
Basingstoke, 2005.
* Nelson C. and L. Grossberg eds., Marxism and Interpretation of Culture,
Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Mullings, L. 1984.
* Newmann Saul, Power and Politics in Post­Structuralist Thought: New
Theories of the Political, Routledge, London, 2005.
Dahl Robert, Who Governs? Yale University Press, USA, 1961.
Foucault M., Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan
Sheridan, New York, Vintage, 1979.
Mitchell T., 'Everyday Metaphors of Power', Theory and Society, Vol 19, No­5,
1990.
Nash Kate, Globalisation, Politics and Power, Blackwell, New York, 2000.
Rabinow Paul ed., The Foucault Reader, Pantheon, 1984.
Raz Joseph, The Morality of Freedom, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986,
chapters 3&4. Hegemony and Legitimation
* Gramsci Antonio, Selection from the Prison Notebooks, London, Lawrence
and Wishart, 1979. pp. 123­205, 365­6, 375­7, 106­110, 55­9.
* Held David, "Legitimation Problems and Crisis Tendencies" in David Held,
Political Theory and the Modern State, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1989.
* Lorrain J., Marxism and Ideology, Macmillan, London, 1985.
Althusser L., “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus” in Lenin and
Philosophy and Other Essays, trans. Ben Brewster, London, New Left Books,
1971.

Anderson Perry, ‘The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci’, New Left Review 100,
1976­77, pp. 5­78.
Bobbio Norberto, ‘Gramsci and the conception of civil society’ in Chantal
Mouffe, ed., Gramsci and Marxist Theory, Routledge, London, 1979.
Butler J., E. Laclau, and S. Zizek, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality,
Verso, London, 2000.
Femia J., Gramsci’s Political Thought: Hegemony, Consciousness and
Revolutionary Process, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981.
Hall Stuart, “The Problem of Ideology: Marxism without Guarantees” in David
Morley et al., eds., Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies, Routledge, London,
1996.
Laclau E. and C. Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, Verso, London,
1985.
Sassoon Ann Showstack, "Passive Revolution and the Politics of Reform" in
A.S. Sassoon, ed., Approaches to Gramsci, Writers and Readers, London,
1982, pp. 127­148.
Texier Jacques, "Gramsci, Theoretician of the Superstructures" in Chantal
Mouffe ed., Gramsci and Marxist Theory , London, Routledge, 1979, pp.
48­79. * Balibar Etienne, “Propositions on Citizenship”, Ethics, 98 (4) 1988,
pp. 723­730.
* Dawn Oliver and Heater Derek, The Foundations of Citizenship, Harvester
Wheatsheaf, New York, 1994 (Chapter 6: ‘Civic Virtue’ and ‘Active
Citizenship’, pp.115­132; chapter 10: Current Perspectives, pp.195­215).
* Gandhi M.K., ‘Duty of Disobeying Laws’, Indian Opinion, 7 September 1907.
________, ‘For Passive Resisters’, Indian Opinion, 21 October 1907.
* Haksar Vinit, Civil Disobedience, Threats and Offers – Gandhi and Rawls,
Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1986, pp.4­43.
* King Martin Luther, Jr., ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail in Hugo Adam Bedau,
Civil Disobedience in Focus, Routledge, London, 1991, 68­84.
* Kymlicka Will, Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and
Citizenship, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001 (Part A: The Evolution of
Minority Rights Debate, pp.15­67). * Balibar Etienne, “Propositions on
Citizenship”, Ethics, 98 (4) 1988, pp. 723­730.
* Dawn Oliver and Heater Derek, The Foundations of Citizenship, Harvester
Wheatsheaf, New York, 1994 (Chapter 6: ‘Civic Virtue’ and ‘Active
Citizenship’, pp.115­132; chapter 10: Current Perspectives, pp.195­215).
* Gandhi M.K., ‘Duty of Disobeying Laws’, Indian Opinion, 7 September 1907.
________, ‘For Passive Resisters’, Indian Opinion, 21 October 1907.
* Haksar Vinit, Civil Disobedience, Threats and Offers – Gandhi and Rawls,
Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1986, pp.4­43.
* King Martin Luther, Jr., ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail in Hugo Adam Bedau,
Civil Disobedience in Focus, Routledge, London, 1991, 68­84.
* Kymlicka Will, Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and
Citizenship, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001 (Part A: The Evolution of
Minority Rights Debate, pp.15­67).

* Coleman J.H., ‘Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital’, American

Journal of Sociology, 94, 1988, pp.95­119.
* Fukuyama Francis, 'Social Capital, Civil Society and Development', Third
World Quarterly, 22 (1), 2001, pp.7­20.
* Putnam R.D., ‘Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital’, Journal of
Democracy, 6, pp.65­78.
* Sevenhuijsen Selma, 'The Place of Care: The Relevance of the Feminist
Ethic of Care for Social Policy' in Feminist Theory, 4(2), pp.179­197.
*Leira and Saraceno, “Care: Actors, relationships and contexts” in B. Hobson
et.al., Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics, Cheltenham,
Edward Ellar Publishing House, 2002, pp.55­83.
Kovalainen Anne, “Social Capital, Trust and Dependency” in Sokratis M.
Koniordos, ed., Networks, Trust and Social Capital: Theoretical and Empirical
Investigations from Europe, Ashgate, London, 2005.
Putnam R.D., Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Renewal of American
Community, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Weir Allison, “The Global Universal Caregiver: Imagining Women’s Liberation
in the New Millennium”, Constellations, 12(3), 2005, pp.309­330.

PO415N: Political Philosophy: Key Concepts II

Basic Readings:
Minnow Martha, “Justice Engendered”, Harvard Law Review, 101 (1987),
10­95.
Nozick Robert, “Distributive Justice”, in Anarchy, State and Utopia, Oxford,
Blackwell, 1974, 149­231.
Rawls John, A Theory of Justice, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1971, pp.
3­53 (Justice as Fairness), and pp. 258­332 (Distributive Shares).
Sandel M.J., Justice: A Reader, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007. Basic
Readings:
Feinberg J., “The Nature and Value of Rights”, in J. Feinberg, Rights, Justice
and the
Bounds of Liberty, Princeton University Press, 1980.
Hart H.L.A., “Are there any natural rights?” in Jeremy Waldron, Theories of
Rights, Oxford University Press, 1984.
Hart H.L.A., “Between Utility and Rights”, in A. Ryan, ed., The Idea of
Freedom, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987.
Raz J., The Morality of Freedom, Clarendon, Oxford, 1986.
Shklar J., ‘The Liberalism of Fear’ in N. Rosenblum, Liberalism and the Moral
Life, Harvard University Press, 1989.
Basic Readings:
Feinberg J., “The Nature and Value of Rights”, in J. Feinberg, Rights, Justice
and the
Bounds of Liberty, Princeton University Press, 1980.
Hart H.L.A., “Are there any natural rights?” in Jeremy Waldron, Theories of
Rights, Oxford University Press, 1984.
Hart H.L.A., “Between Utility and Rights”, in A. Ryan, ed., The Idea of
Freedom, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987.
Raz J., The Morality of Freedom, Clarendon, Oxford, 1986.
Shklar J., ‘The Liberalism of Fear’ in N. Rosenblum, Liberalism and the Moral
Life, Harvard University Press, 1989.
Dworkin Ronald, “Four Essays on Equality”, including ‘What is Equality? Part
I: Equality of Welfare’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, summer 10/3, 1981
‘What is Equality? Part II: Equality of Resources’, Philosophy and Public
Affairs, falls, 10/4, 1981.
.Parekh Bhikhu, “Equality in a Multicultural Society”, in Rethinking
Multiculturalism, New York, Palgrave, 2000, pp 239­263.
Phillips Anne, Which Equalities Matter, Polity, 1999.
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PO517: State Politics in India
(A Detailed Reading List covering individual States will be supplied)
1. Asha Sarangi (ed) Language and Politics in India (New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 2009).
2. Bhalla G.S. 1994 (ed.) Economic Liberalisation and Indian Agriculture
Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi: 61­107.
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1977.
4. Brass Paul R Language Religion and Politics in North India CUP 1974.
5. Christophe Jaffrelot India’s Silent Revolution the Rise of the Low Castes in
North
Indian Politics Permanent Black New Delhi 2003.
6. Francine Frankel & M.S.A Rao (eds.) Dominance and State Power in India
OUP,
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7. Geeta, V.& Rajdurai 1993 "Dalits and Non­Brahmin Consciousness in
Colonial
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2091­98
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Indira Gandhi by Stanley Kochanek).
9. Iqbal Narain (ed.) State Politics in India Meerut, Meenakshi Prakashan,
1965.
10. Jeffrey Sachs, Ashutosh Varshney, and Nirupam Bajpai, (eds.): India in
the Era of
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11. Joan V. Bondurant, Nationalism versus Provincialism, Berkeley, 1959.
12. John R. Wood (ed.) State Politics in Contemporary India: Crisis or
Continuity,
London, Westview Press, 1984.
13. John Robinson “Regionalising India: Uttarakhand and the politics of
creating states” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 24, Issue
2 December 2001 , pages 189 ­ 212
14. Jos Mooij (ed) The Politics of Economic Reforms in India, New Delhi:
Sage, 2005
15. K. Banerjee, Regional Political parties in India, Delhi, B. R. Publishing
House,
1984
16. Kohli, Atul. 1991. Democracy and Discontent: India’s Growing Crisis of
Governability OUP, New Delhi.
17. Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph 1981 " Transformation of the Congress Party:
Why
1980s was not a Restoration” Economic and Political Weekly May 2:
811­820..
18. Myron Weiner (ed.) State Politics in India, Princeton University, 1968.
19. Myron Weiner and John Osgood Field (eds.), Electoral Politics in the
Indian
States, Vols. I– IV, New Delhi, Manohar, 1974, 75.
20. Paul Wallace (ed.) Region and Nation in India OUP 1985.
21. Ramashray Roy & Paul Wallace (eds.) Diversity and Dominance in Indian
Politics 2 Vols, 1990, 1992.
22. Rob Jenkins Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India,
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1999.
23. Sudha Pai “Agrarian Mobilization and Farmers’ Movements in India” in
Oxford
Companion to Indian Politics (eds.) Pratap Bhanu Mehta & Niraja Gopal
Jayal.
OUP, 2009.
24. Sudha Pai 1993 Uttar Pradesh Agrarian Change Electoral Politics Shipra
Publications, New Delhi.
25. Sudha Pai State Politics New Dimensions: Party System, Liberalization
and
Politics of Identity. Shipra Publications, New Delhi. 1999.
26. Sudha Pai, 2002, Dalit Assertion and the Unfinished Democratic
Revolution: The
BSP in Uttar Pradesh, Sage Publications, New Delhi.
27. Vijay Joshi and I.M.D Little India’s Economic Reforms: 1991­2001, New
Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 1996.
Reports and Special Issues:
Special Issue: Political Parties and Elections in the Indian States 1990­2003
Journal of Indian School of Political Economy Vol XV, Nos 1&2 Jan­June
2003.
Special issue: Seminar no. 157, March 2007 “Battleground UP”. Special issue:
Scheduled Castes Changing Socio­Economic and Political Profile of
Scheduled Castes in Uttar Pradesh July­December 2000. Journal of the
Indian School of Political Economy (Pune) State Politics in India in the 1990s
Political Mobilization and Political Competition Jointly organized by
Developing Countries Research Centre, University of Delhi and London
School of Economics Dec 2004 New Delhi (Papers available)

PO 531: STATE IN INDIA

Gabriel Almond,The Return of the State in APSR, Vol 82, No 3, September

1988.
Joel S.Migdal, State in Society: Studying How States and Societies Transform
and Constitute One Another (1991:CUP)­ Selections
Foucault M., Governmentality
Peter Evans and Theda Skocpol, Bringing the State Back in (1985: CUP),
Selections Charles Tilly, The Formation of Nation­States in Western Europe
(Selections)

Martin Doornboos and Sudipta Kaviraj (ed), Dynamics of State Formation:

India and Europe Compared (Selections).
Pranab Bardhan, The Political Economy of Development in India
Amiya Bagchi, Political Economy of Underdevelopment
Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph, In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of
the Indian State
Francine Frankel, India’s Political Economy, 1947­77, and the revised edition
of year 2004.
Terence Byres (ed), The State and Development Planning in India
T.V.Sathayamurthy (ed), State and Nation in the Context of Change
(selections), Francine Frankel and M.S.A.Rao (Ed), Dominance and State
Power, Vol 1 and 2.
Rob Jenkins, Economic Reforms and Democracy (Selections).
Deepak Nayyar, Economic Liberalization in India
David Ludden (ed), Making India Hindu: Religion, Community and the Politics
of Democracy in India (selections).
Atul Kohli, Democracy and Discontent: India’s Growing Crisis of Governability.
Chritophe Jaffrelot, India’s Silent Revolution: The Rise of Low Castes in North
Indian Politics.
Ghanshyam Shah (ed), Dalit Identity and Politics.
Oliver Mendelsohn and Upendra Baxi (ed), The Rights of the Subordinated
People
Gail Omvedt, Reinventing Revolution: New Social Movements and the
Socialist Tradition in India.
Bina Agarwal, A Field of Her Own: Gender and Property Rights in India
Bina Agarwal (ed), Structures of Patriarchy.
Frankel et al, Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy
T.V.Sathyamurthy (ed0, Region, Religion, Caste, Gender and Culture in
Contemporary India.
Karin Kapadia (ed), The Violence of Development.
Asha Sarangi (ed). Language and Politics in India (New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 2009).

Lloyd Rudolph (ed), Experiencing the State (Selections).

John Harris , Reinventing India
Chris Fuller and Veronique Benei (ed0, Everyday State and Society in Modern
India. Partha Chatterjee (ed), State and Politics in India.
Vivian She, The Reach of the State

PO534: Feminism and Political Theory

Coole D.H., Women in Political Theory, 1988.

Fraser N., ‘What is critical about Critical Theory: the case of Habermas and
Gender’, Feminism as Critique, 1987.

Gatens M., ‘The Dangers of a Woman Centered Philosophy’, The Polity

Reader in Gender Studies, 1994.
Hackett E. & S. Haslanger, Theorizing Feminisms, 2006.
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Pateman C., ‘The theoretical subversiveness of feminism’, Feminist
Challenges. Squires J., Gender in Political Theory, 1999.
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Handbook of Political Theory, 2006.

Coole D., ‘Constructing and Deconstructing Liberty’.

Friedman M., Autonomy, Gender, Politics, 2003.
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2003. Pateman C., The Sexual Contract.

Benn S.I. & G.F. Gaus, Public and Private in Social Life, 1983.
Brown W., ‘Suffering the Paradoxes of Rights’, Left Legalism/Left Critique,
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Kapur R., Feminist Terrains in Legal Domains, 1996.
Nedelsky J., ‘Law, Boundaries and the Bounded Self’, Representations, 1990.
Pateman C., ‘Feminist Critiques of the Public/Private Dichotomy’.

Menon N., Recovering Subversion, 2004.

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Pateman Carole, ‘Self­ownership and property in the person: Democratization
and a tale of two concepts’, Journal of Philosophy, 2002.
Phillips A., ‘Feminism and Democracy’.
Phillips A., ‘Must feminists give up on liberal democracy’.
Roy A., Gendered Citizenship, 2005.
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Gilligan C., Mapping the Moral Domain, 1988.
Leira A. & C. Saracens, ‘Care: actors, relationships and contexts’, Contested
Concepts in Gender and Social Politics, 2002.
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Tronto J.C., Moral Boundaries – A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care.
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the New Millennium’, Constellations, 2005 . John M.E., ‘Sexuality in Modern
India’.
Mackinnon C.A., Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law, 1987.
Mackinnon C.A., Toward a Feminist Theory of the State, 1989.
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Sexuality’, 1984.
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2004. Keller E.F., ‘Feminism and Science’.
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Wylie A., ‘Feminism in Philosophy of Science’, The Cambridge Companion to
Feminism in Philosophy, 2000.

Butler J., Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Collins
P., Black Feminist Thought.
Hirsch M. & E.F. Keller, Conflicts in Feminism.
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