Course Objective: The aim of the course is to explain contemporary debates on feminism and the history of feminist struggles. The course begins with a discussion on construction of gender and an understanding of complexity of patriarchy and goes on to analyze theoretical debates within feminism. The paper also covers the history of feminism in the west, socialist societies and in anti-colonial struggles. Further a gendered analysis of Indian society, economy and polity with a view to understanding the structures of gender inequalities.
Reading List:
· Geetha, V. (2002) Gender. Calcutta: Stree.
· Geetha, V. (2007) Patriarchy. Calcutta: Stree.
· Jagger, Alison. (1983) Feminist Politics and Human Nature. U.K.: Harvester Press, pp. 25-350.
· Lerner, Gerda. (1986) The Creation of Patriarchy. New York: Oxford University Press.
· Rowbotham, Shiela. (1993) Women in Movements. New York and London: Routledge, Section I, pp. 27-74 and 178-218.
· Jayawardene, Kumari. (1986) Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World. London: Zed Books, pp. 1-24, 71-108, and Conclusion.
· Forbes, Geraldine (1998) Women in Modern India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,pp. 1-150.
· Eisentein, Zillah. (1979) Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism. New York: Monthly Review Press, pp. 271-353.
· Funk, Nanette & Mueller, Magda. (1993) Gender, Politics and Post-Communism. New York and London: Routledge, Introduction and Chapter 28.
· Chaudhuri, Maiyatree. (2003) ‘Gender in the Making of the Indian Nation State’, in Rege, Sharmila. (ed.) The Sociology of Gender: The Challenge of Feminist Sociological Knowledge. New Delhi: Sage.
· Banarjee, Sikata. (2007) ‘Gender and Nationalism: The Masculinisation of Hinduism and Female Political Participation’, in Ghadially, Rehana. (ed.) Urban Women in Contemporary
India: A Reader. New Delhi: Sage.
· Roy, Kumkum. (1995) ‘Where Women are Worshipped, There Gods Rejoice: The Mirage of the Ancestress of the Hindu Women’, in Sarkar, Tanika & Butalia, Urvashi. (eds.) Women and the Hindu Right. Delhi: Kali for Women, pp. 10-28.
· Chakravarti, Uma. (1988) ‘Beyond the Altekarian Paradigm: Towards a New Understanding of Gender Relations in Early Indian History’, Social Scientist, Volume 16, No. 8.
· Banerjee, Nirmala. (1999) ‘Analysing Women’s work under Patriarchy’ in Sangari, Kumkum & Chakravarty, Uma. (eds.) From Myths to Markets: Essays on Gender. Delhi: Manohar.
· Gandhi, Nandita & Shah, Nandita. (1991) The Issues at Stake – Theory and
Practice in Contemporary Women’s Movement in India. Delhi: Zubaan, pp. 7-72.
· Shinde, Tarabai (1993) ‘Stri-Purush Tulna’, in Tharu, Susie & Lalita, K. (eds.) Women Writing in India, 600 BC to the Present. Vol. I. New York: Feminist Press.
Desai, Neera & Thakkar, Usha. (2001) Women in Indian Society. New Delhi: National Book Trust.
Course Objective: This course acquaints Students with the constitutional design of state structures and institutions, and their actual working overtime .The Indian constitution accommodates conflicting impulses (of Liberty and justice, territorial decentralization and a strong union for instance )within itself .The course traces the embodiment of some of this conflicts in constitutional provisions and shows how these have played out in political practice. It further encourages a study of state institutions in their mutual interaction, and in interaction with the larger extra constitutional environment.
Suggested /Essential Readings
1.D.Basu: Introduction to the Constitution of India; New Delhi, Lexis Nexis
2.S Chaube: Making and Working of the Indian Constitution; New Delhi, National Book Trust.
3.G.Austin: The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation ; New Delhi, Oxford University Press
4.R. Bhargava(ed) : Politics and Ethics of the Indian Constitution ; New Delhi,Oxford University press
5P. Mehta and N. Jayal (eds): The Oxford Companion to Politics in India, New Delhi, Oxford University Press.
6.D.Kapur and P Mehta (eds)Public Institutions in India New Delhi, Oxford University Press.
7.B.Dua and J.Manon (eds) : Nehru to the Nineties : The changing office of the Prime Minister in India , Vancouver, University of British,Columbia Press.
8.B.Kirpal et.al (eds): Supreme but not Infallible: Essays in honour of the Supreme Court of India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press
9.A.R. Dutta (ed): Politics in India( Issues , Institutions,Processes) Guwahati, Arun Prakashan
10.Dr. K C Pal,P C Nayak and S Sarmah: Snatok Moholar Bharotor Rajonoitik Byabastha, Ghy, Arun Prakashan
11.B R Agarwala: Our Judiciary,New DelhiNational Book Trust
12.S C Kashyap: Our Parliament,New Delhi,National Book Trust
13.S C Kashyap:Our Constitution , New Delhi, National Bok Trust
14.M Aslam;Panchayati Raj in India; New Delhi ,National Book Trust
15.S C Kashyap: Our Political System, New Delhi ,National Book Trust