Objectives: The primary aim of this paper is to acquaint the students with the politics of contemporary Assam.
Books Recommended:
· Joysankar Hazarika : Geopolitics of Northeast India, Gyan Publishers, New Delhi,1996
· Manirul Hussain : The Assam Movement : Class, Identity and Ideology, Manak Publications,New Delhi, 1993
· Sandhya Goswami : Language Politics in Assam, Ajanta, New Delhi, 1997
· K.M. Deka (ed.) : Nationalism and Regionalism in Northeast India, Dibrugarh University,1985
· K.M. Deka & K.N. Phukon: Ethnicity in ASSAM, Dibrugarh University, 2001
· Girin Phukon : Assam’s Attitude to Federalism, Sterling Publishers, New Delhi, 1984 : Inter-Ethnic conflict in Northeast India, (South Asian Publishers, NewDelhi, 2005)
: Politics of Regionalism in Northeast India (Spectrum Publication, NewDelhi, 2003.
· Girin Phukon & : Politics of Identity and Nation Building in Northeast India, South AsianN.L. Dutta (eds), Publishers, New Delhi, 1997
· A.K.Baruah: Social Tensions in Assam
· J.Upadhyay : Student Politics in Assam, 2017
· Monirul Hussain: Iterrogating Development, Sage, 2008
· S.K. Chaube : Hill Politics in Northeaswt India, Orient Longman Ltd., New Delhi, 1999
· Meeta Deka : Student Movement in Assam, Vikas, New Delhi, 1996
· Samir Kr. Das : ULFA, (United Liberation Front of Assam) : A Political analysis, 1994
· B. Dutta Roy : Re-organisation of Northeast India since, 1947 (Concept PublishingCompany, New Delhi, 1996)
Objectives: The primary aim of this paper is acquaint with the students with the sensitive peripheral states of India that has attracted the attention of the social scientists since a few year back. Moreover, being the citizen of the North East region it is invariably the concern of the students to have proper understanding of their own area. This is also one of the objectives of introducing this paper.
Text Books:
Joysankar Hazarika: Geopolitics of Northeast India, gyan Publishers,New Delhi,1996
Manirul Hussain: The Assam movement: Class, Identity and Ideology,Manak Publications, New Delhi,1993
Sandhya goswami : Language politics in Assam, Ajanta, New Delhi,1997
K.m.Deka (ed) : Nationalisim and Regionalisim in North East India,Dibrugarh University,1985
K.M. Deka & K.N. Phukan: Ethnicity in Assam, Dibrugarh University,2001
Girin Phukan: Assam’s Attitude to Federalism,sterling Publishers, New Delhi,1984
: Inter-Ethnic conflict in North East India, ( South Asian Publishers, New De4lhi,2005)
: Politics of Regionalisim in North East India ( Spectrum Publication,New
Girin Phukan & N.L. Dutta (eds): Politics of identity and Nation Building in North East India, South Asian Publishers, New Delhi,1997
Reference Books:
S.K.Chaube: Hill Politics in Northeast India, Orient Longman Ltd, New Delhi,1999 Meeta Deka: Stude4nt Movement in Assam, Vikas, New Delhi,1996
Samir Kr. Das: ULFA ( United Liberation Front of Assam) : A political analysis, 1994
B.Dutta roy: Re-organisation of Northeast India since,1947 ( Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi,1996)
Course Objective: This course provides a theoretical and practical understanding of the concepts and methods that can be employed in the analysis of public policy. It uses the methods of political economy to understand policy as well as understand politics as it is shaped by economic changes. The course will be useful for students who seek an integrative link to their understanding of political science, economic theory and the practical world of development and social change.
READING LIST
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· Sapru, R.K.(1996) Public Policy : Formulation, Implementation and Evaluation. New Delhi:Sterling Publishers, pp. 26-46.
· IGNOU. Public Policy Analysis. MPA-015. New Delhi: IGNOU, pp. 15-26 and 55-64.
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· Dunleavy, P. and O'Leary, B. (1987) Theories of the State. London: Routledge.
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Course objective: Under the influence of globalization, development processes in India have undergone transformation to produce spaces of advantage and disadvantage and new geographies of power. The high social reproduction costs and dispossession of vulnerable social groups involved in such a development strategy condition new theaters of contestation and struggles. A variety of protest movements emerged to interrogate and challenge this development paradigm that evidently also weakens the democratic space so very vital to the formulation of critical consensus. This course proposes to introduce students to the conditions, contexts and forms of political contestation over development paradigms and their bearing on the retrieval of democratic voice of citizens.
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· P. Chatterjee, (2000) ‘Development Planning and the Indian State’, in Zoya Hasan
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· P. Patnaik and C. Chandrasekhar, (2007) ‘India: Dirigisme, Structural Adjustment, and theRadical Alternative’, in B. Nayar (ed.), Globalization and Politics in India. Delhi: OxfordUniversity Press, pp. 218-240.
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· T. Singh, (1979) ‘The Planning Process and Public Process: a Reassessment’, R.
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Economic Reform, Delhi: Oxford University Press.
· S. Chowdhury, (2007) ‘Globalization and Labour’, in B. Nayar (ed.)
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· R. Mukherji, (ed.), (2007) India’s Economic Transition: The Politics of Reforms, Delhi: OxfordUniversity Press.
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