COVER COMPLETE SYLLABUS:-

Unit 1: India: Emergence from the Freedom Struggle                          14Hrs. 10 Marks • Impact of colonialism on Indian society, economy and polity  • Anti-colonial struggle and different visions about independent India  18  • Institutional structures of the Indian nation state: Continuities and Breaks with the colonial apparatus  Unit 2: Constitution of India and Education                                     32Hrs. 20marks • Constitutional vision of independent India: then and now  • Constitution and Education: Concurrent status of education  • Policies, Acts and Provisions related to education and children with special reference to their contexts (class, caste, tribe, religion, language and gender)  • Reservation as an egalitarian policy  • Equality and Justice in the Indian Constitution, differential school system and the idea of common neighborhood school   Unit 3: Democracy in India                                                                32Hrs. 20 Marks  • Institutional Structures: The Centre and the State, the Judiciary, Legislature and Executive  • Democracy, Party system and Electoral Politics  • Decentralization and Panchayati Raj (specifically through 73rd and 74th amendments)  • Grass-root social and political movements and Indian democracy  • Challenges to deepen Indian democracy in relation to inequities of caste, class, gender and religious and linguistic identities   Unit 4: Indian Economy                                                                       32Hrs. 20Marks  • Issues and Debates on Globalization, Liberalization and Privatization of economy  • Meaning and politics of development and its effects  • Development and Environmental concerns  • Agrarian economy: key features, land ownership, landlessness, agricultural production, market and credit  • Unorganised sector and migrant labor (to be studied with the help of a project based on locally done field work)