Political Science
PRELIMS
Section A
1. Political Theory by Eddy Ashirvatham
2. Political Theory by O.P. Gauba
3. Political Theory by Amal Ray, Mohit Bhattacharya.
4. Comparative Politics Chilkote
5. Constitution by P.M Bakshi
6. Political Theory —Amal Ray & Mohit Bhattacharya.
7. Introduction to Indian Constitution D.D. Basu
8. India's Struggle for Independence —Bipin Chandra.
9. Introduction to Indian constitution D.D. Basu.
10. Our Parliament by S.C. Kashyap
11. Our Constitution by S.C. Kashyap
12. Comparative Govt. & Politics by V.N. Khanna
13. Comparative Govt. & Politics by K.R. Bombwal
14. Useful Journals
IIPA Journal
The Hindu
Frontline
Mains Examination
PAPER I
1. A History of Political thought—Subrata Mukherjee, Susheela Ramswami
2. A History of Political thought —J.P. Suda
3. For Manu & Kautilya: Foundations of Indian Political thought — V.R. Mehta
4. Modern Political Theory —S.P. Verma
5. Modern Political Theory —Madan Gandhi
6. Political Theory —Eddy Ashirvatham
7. Political Theory —J.C. Johri
8. Political Theory —Ray & Bhattacharya
9. Political Theory —O.P. Gauba
11. Comparative Govt. & Politics —J.C. Johri
12 Comparative Govt. & Politics —Ronald Chilkote
13. Modern Indian Political Thinkers —V.P. Verma
14.Foundations of Indian Political Thought —V.R. Mehta
15.Indian Govt. and Politics —A.S. Narang
16.Indian Govt. and Politics —J.R. Siwach
17.Indian Govt and Politics —M.P. Singh, Himanshu Roy
18.Politics in India —Rajani Kothari
19.Govt. and Politics of India —W.H. Morris Jones
PAPER II
20. Theoretical aspects of International Politics —Mahendra Kumar
21. Politics among Nations —Morgenthau
22.International Politics —Schuman
23. International Politics —Bookhives
24. Regular subscription of Frontline & World Focus (magazine)
Topic wise Suggested Readings
Political Theory and Indian Politics
George H. Sabine (Western political theory)
Eddy Ashrivatham (Political theory)
C.L. Wayper (Political thought)
O.P. Gauba (An introduction to political thought)
R.M. Bhagat (Western political thought)
Amal Roy and Mohit Bhattacharya (political theory, ideas and institutions)
S.P. Varma (Modern political theory)
J.C. Jauhary (Comparative politics)
A.S. Sandhu (Political theory)
Pukharaj Jain (Political thought)
Indian Constitution and Politics
M.V. Pylee (Indian Constitution)
D.D Basu (An introduction to Indian constitution)
V.N. Shukla (Constitution of India, couple of chapters are really relevant)
A.C. Kapoor (Comparative Governments)
V.P. Varma (Indian political theory)
K.R. Bombwal (Comparative constitutions)
Bipin Chandra (Freedom struggle)
Sumit Sarkar (Modern India)
A.R. Desai (Social background of Indian Nationalism)
Paul Brass (Politics in India since independence)
Independent India: First Fifty Years - Hiranyamay Kelkar
Indian foreign policy agenda for 21st century (1998 Foreign service institute) - Lalit Mansingh
India's foreign policy in a changing world (1999) - V.P. Dutt
People's right and the state in the third world - Manjooran Mohanty & Partha Mukherjee
World politics in the twentieth century - Paul Kennedy
Nuclear India (1998) Jasjit Singh
