Check out the latest Political Science Syllabus 2017. Political Science subject is one of the optional papers in UPSC IAS Mains Exam. Earlier we’ve provided UPSC Mains Syllabus, Now we are providing UPSC Mains Optional Subject Syllabus of Political Science Paper.

There is only “ONE” optional subject to choose from the list of optional subjects which are given below. It comprises of two papers each of 250 marks. So, the optional paper has total 500 marks. In UPSC Civil Services Mains Exam, Political Science is one of the Optional Subjects and consists of 2 papers. Each paper is of 250 marks with a total of 500 marks.

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Find below the UPSC Syllabus for Political Science Optional Subject. UPSC Mains Political Science Syllabus PAPER – I Political Theory and Indian Politics: • Political Theory: meaning and approaches. • Theories of the State: Liberal, Neoliberal, Marxist, Pluralist, Post-colonial and feminist. • Justice: Conceptions of justice with special reference to Rawl’s theory of justice and its communitarian critiques. • Equality: Social, political and economic; relationship between equality and freedom; Affirmative action.

Road To Riches 2 Game more. • Rights: Meaning and theories; different kinds of rights; concept of Human Rights. • Democracy: Classical and contemporary theories; different models of democracy – representative, participatory and deliberative. • Concept of power, hegemony, ideology and legitimacy. • Political Ideologies: Liberalism, Socialism, Marxism, Fascism, Gandhism and Feminism.

• Indian Political Thought: Dharamshastra, Arthashastra and Buddhist traditions; Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Sri Aurobindo, M.K. Ambedkar, M.N. • Western Political Thought: Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, John S. Mill, Marx, Gramsci, Hannah Arendt. Also Read Other Articles Indian Government and Politics: • Indian Nationalism: (a) Political Strategies of India’s Freedom Struggle: Constitutionalism to mass Satyagraha, Non-cooperation, Civil Disobedience; Militant and revolutionary movements, Peasant and workers’ movements. (b) 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.