Course Structure and Syllabus for MA
in Development Studies (to be
applicable from 2011 batch onwards) |
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Semester |
Courses |
L |
T |
P |
C |
First Semester |
HS
501 Essentials of Political Theory |
3 |
1 |
- |
8 |
HS
502 Development and Growth: Theoretical Perspective |
3 |
1 |
- |
8 |
|
HS
503 Sociology of Development |
3 |
1 |
- |
8 |
|
Elective
I |
3 |
1 |
- |
8 |
|
Elective
II |
3 |
1 |
- |
8 |
|
Total
Credit
|
15 |
5 |
- |
40 |
|
Second Semester |
HS 504
Economic Problems and Policies in Developing Countries |
3 |
1 |
- |
8 |
HS 505
Research Methods in Social Sciences |
3 |
1 |
- |
8 |
|
HS 506 Interrogating Modernity |
3 |
1 |
- |
8 |
|
Elective I |
3 |
1 |
- |
8 |
|
Elective II |
3 |
1 |
- |
8 |
|
Total
Credit |
15 |
5 |
- |
40 |
|
Third Semester |
HS 514 Agriculture and Rural Development |
3 |
1 |
- |
8 |
HS 602 Planning and Project Management |
3 |
1 |
- |
8 |
|
HS 603
Globalization and Development |
3 |
1 |
- |
8 |
|
Elective I |
3 |
- |
- |
6 |
|
Elective II |
3 |
- |
- |
6 |
|
HS 698
Phase I of dissertation |
- |
- |
10 |
10 |
|
Total
Credit |
15 |
- |
10 |
46 |
|
Fourth Semester |
HS 699
Dissertation |
- |
- |
30 |
30 |
Grand
Total Credits |
|
156 |
(Compulsory courses)
HS-501 Essentials of
Political Theory 3-1-0-8 Basic
concepts Power;
state; freedom; equality: moral, legal, material equalities; justice:
egalitarian, libertarian theories of justice; democracy; citizenship Classical
ideologies Liberalism:
contractarianism, rights-based liberalism,
utilitarianism; conservatism; socialism: utopian socialism, scientific
socialism; anarchism; nationalism: liberalism and nationalism, socialism and
nationalism; fascism Contemporary
ideologies Feminism:
liberal, socialist, radical, black, philosophical feminisms;
multiculturalism: culture, race, ethnicity, religion; ecologism:
environmental crisis, land ethic, deep ecology; fundamentalism:
fundamentalism and religion, modernity and tradition, fundamentalism,
democracy and violence Contemporary
ideas Human
rights: human rights conventions, relativism v/s universalism, group rights;
civil disobedience: civil disobedience and law breaking, civil disobedience
and democracy, civil rights movement; terrorism: political violence v/s
terrorism. Texts: 1. H. John, G. Paul, Introduction
To Political Theory, Pearson Education, New Delhi, 2007 2. G. Gerald, Political
Concepts And Political Theories, Westview
Press, Oxford, 2000 References: 1. M. Tibor,
S. J Aeon, Political Philosophy, Pearson
Education, New Delhi, 2007 HS-502 Development and Growth – Theoretical
Perspective (3-1-0-8) Concepts of
economic development and economic growth; diverse structures and common
characteristics of developing economies; Indices of economic development;
historical growth and contemporary perspectives, lessons and controversies. Theories, models and strategies for economic
development: Schumpeter’s Analysis, Rostow’s Stages
of Economic growth, doctrine of balanced growth, concept of unbalanced
growth, ‘Big push’ theory, critical minimum efforts thesis, Harrod-Domer model, Lewis model of economic growth. Texts: 1. M.P Todaro, Development Economics, Pearson, 9th
edition, 2006. 2. G.M Meier and J.E. Rauch, Leading Issues
in economic Development, 8th edition, OUP, 2004 3. A.P Thirlwal, Growth and Development, 8th
edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. References: 1. D. Roy,
Development Economics, OUP, 1999. 2. R.J. Barro, and X S Martin, Economic Growth, 2nd
edition,PHI, 2004. |
HS-503 Sociology of Development (3-1-0-8) Defining development; theories
of development: modernization and globalization, dependency and world
systems; Issues in development: Environment, Population, Poverty,
Urbanization, gender, ethnicity, identity,
possibilities of localism, economic development, conflict, fundamentalism and
insurgency. Texts: 1. R. Klitgaard, Adjusting
to Reality: Beyond "State Versus Market" in Economic Development, 2. Hage and Finsterbusch, Organizational Change as a Development
Strategy 3. N. Uphoff, M. Esman and A. Krishna, Reasons for Success: Learning
from Instructive Experiences in Rural Development 4. J. Isbister.
Promises Not Kept. Kumarian Press. 5. J. T. Roberts and A. Hite
(editors). From Modernization to Globalization. Blackwell Press |
HS-504 Economic Problems and Policies in Developing
Countries (3-1-0-8) Economic inequality: measure of inequality; The
inverted U-hypothesis, income and growth, capital market and human capital;
Poverty: undernourishment, measures of poverty, impact of poverty on labour market, credit market; Population growth: birth
and death rates and age distribution, demographic transition; Rural urban
interaction: Lewis model, migration, Harris Todaro
model; Land market: ownership, tenancy and other contracts; Labour market; Credit market: informal markets,
information asymmetries and credit rationing, alternative policy; Insurance:
information and enforcement; Trade and trade policy. Texts: 1. M.P Todaro, Development Economics, Pearson, 9th
edition, 2006. 2. G.M. Meier and
J.E. Rauch, Leading Issues in Economic Development, 8th
edition, OUP, 2004 3. A.P.Thirlwal, Growth and Development, 8th
edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 4. D.Ray,
Development Economics, OUP, 1998. References: 1. S. Ghatak, Introduction to development Economics, Routledge, 4th edition, 2007. 2. Y. Hayami, Development Economics, OUP, 2005 |
HS-505 Research methods in Social sciences (3-1-0 8)
Scope and
objectives of social research: Theory, facts, data; objectivity in social research;
Research Design: Typologies of Research Design; formulation of research
problem; hypothesis; Methods of Social Research: Quantitative research;
questionnaire, schedule, survey, sampling, measurement; Qualitative research:
Observation; interview method, case study, content analysis, PRA/PLA
techniques; Analysis and Interpretation of Data: Quantative,
Qualitiative, Statistical methods in social
research, Report Writing. Texts/References:
1. C. Steve and
P. Mcneill, Research Methods, Routledge, 2005 2. T. May, Social
Research: Issues, Methods and Process, Open University Press, 2001 3. E. Babbie,
Adventures in Social Research, 1998, Sage. 4. A. Bryman and Cramer, Quantitative data analysis for
social scientist, Routledge, 1990. 5. G. Morgan (eds), Beyond Method: Strategies for Social Research,
Sage, 1988. 6. M.N Srinivas, A.M.Shah and E.A. Ramaswamy (eds), Field
worker and the Field: Problems and Challenges in Sociological 7.Investigation,
Oxford University Press, 1979. 8. W.G Goode and P.K.Hatt, Methods in Social Research, N.Y, 1952. 9. P. V Young, Scientific
Social Surveys and Research, PHI, 1966 |
HS-506 Interrogating Modernity (3-1-0-8) Modernity as a
project of Enlightenment; Modernist paradigm in sociology: modern science, industrialisation and development; Marx and Weber:
sociological modernism; Levi-Strauss and Althusser:
structuralist interpretation; Lukacs,
Gramsci and Touraine: society as human creation;
Dialectic of engaging with and interrogating modernity; Wallerstein,
Giddens and Habermas: synthesising modernity and social theory; Deconstructing
modernity: post-colonial, postmodernist and feminist perspectives; Modernity
in non-modern contexts; The idea of alternative or multiple modernities; The paradigm of revisionism in the discourse
on modernity; Reflexivity: post-industrial society, autonomy, social
movements, alternative paradigms in science and development. Texts 1. A. Giddens, The
Consequences of Modernity, Polity, 1989. 2. J.P.S. Uberoi, The European
Modernity: Science, Truth and Method, 3. J. Alam, 4 .P. Chatterjee, A
Possible India: Essays in Political Criticism, Oxford University Press,
1997. 5. S. Hall, D.
Held and A. McGrew (Eds.), Modernity
and its Futures, Polity/Open University Press, 1992. References 1. K. Kumar, Prophecy and Progress: The Sociology of
Industrial and Post-industrial Society, Penguin, 1986. 2. J. Habermas, The
Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, Polity, 1987. 3. M. Foucault, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and
Other Writings, 1972-1977, Pantheon, 1980. 4. J.F. Lyotard, The
Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, University of 5. E. Said, Orientalism: Western Concepts of the Orient,
Penguin, 1985. 6. Z. Bauman, Intimations of Postmodernity.
Routledge, 1992. 7. P. Abbott and
C. Wallace, An Introduction to
Sociology: Feminist Perspectives, Routledge,
1990. 8. F. Jameson, Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of
Late Capitalism, Verso, 19 |
HS-
514 Agriculture and Rural Development (3-1-0-8) Significance of rural development; agrarian
question; peasants, capitalism and paths of transformation; agriculture and
rural development; Issues in agricultural development- new agricultural
technology, tenancy, agricultural marketing; green revolution and appropriate
technology; land reforms; agrarian systems and the state; agriculture and
rural credit markets-micro-credit; WTO and agriculture; integrated rural
development and government programmes;
decentralization and participatory rural development, Text:
1.
K.B. Ghimire, 2001, Land Reform and Peasant
Livelihoods The Social Dynamics of Rural Poverty and Agrarian Reform in
Developing Countries, 2.
M. Morner, and T. Svensson,
1991. The Transformation of Rural Society in the Third World. A. Shepherd, 1998, Sustainable Rural Development,
Reference: 1. M.P
Todaro, and S.C. Smith, Economic Development,
Pearson Education, 2003 2. G.
M. Meir, and Rauch, E.James, 2003, Leading
Issues in Economic Development, |
HS 602 Planning and Project Management (3-1-0-8) Development planning: concepts and ideology,
objectives, the case for and against planning, planning versus market; Generation and Screening
of project ideas, objectives of project planning; Project preparation: market and demand analysis,
technical analysis, financial estimates and projections, financing of projects, project management;
Social cost-benefits analysis; Appraisal, monitoring and evaluation of
development programmes and projects. Texts/References: 1.
M.P Todaro and S.C. Smith, Development Economics, 9th Ed.,
Pearson Education, 2006. 2.
P. Chandra, Projects, Planning,
Analysis, Financing, Implementation and Review, 5th Ed.,
Tata McGraw
Hill Publishing Co. Ltd., 2002. 3.
R. Dale, Evaluating Development Programmes and Projects, 2nd Ed.,
Sage Publications, 2004. 4.
R. Dale, Organisations and Development, Strategies, Structures and Processes,
Sage Publications,2000. |
HS
603 International Trade and Development (3-1-0-8) World trading patterns; Mainstream economics trade
theories: absolute and comparative advantage theories, sources of comparative advantage,
specific factor model, Heckscher-Ohlin model, economies of scale and imperfect competition,
international factor movements; Trade policy: tariffs, export subsidies, import and export quotas, political
economy of trade policy, import substituting industrialisation; Exchange rates and open
economy macroeconomics; Alternative paradigms: Prebisch- Texts/References: 1. P. Krugman and M. Obstfeld, International Economics: Theory and Policy, 6th Ed., Pearson Education,
2003. 2. D. Ray, Development Economics, OUP, 1998. 3. A.K. Bagchi, The
Political Economy of Underdevelopment, Orient Longman, 1989. 4. M. P. Todaro and S. C. Smith, Economic
Development,
Pearson Education, 2003. 5. P. Patnaik (ed.), Imperialism:
the Highest Stage of Capitalism: Lenin, Leftword,
2000. |
(Elective Courses)
HS-507
Caste and the Politics of Development (3 -1-0-8) Culture:
identity and tradition; social stratification: features of the caste system, varna and jati; caste and
class; reform and intervention: Phule, Gandhi and Ambedkar; social change and conflict; caste and
democratic politics; sanskritization; the discourse
of power and social reality; empowerment and political representation; social
backwardness and the politics of reservations; subaltern voices: agency and
representation; Dalit movements: caste and social
transformation. Texts/References 1. L. Dumont, Homo Hierarchicus, Vikas,
2. M.N. Srinivas,
3. G.P. Deshpande, Selected Writings of Jotirao
Phule, Leftword, 4. D.R. Nagaraj, The Flaming Feet: A Study of the Dalit Movement, South Forum Press, 5. K.L. Sharma, Caste, Class and Tribe, Rawat, 6. R. Guha (ed.),
Subaltern Studies: Writings on South
Asian History andSociety, OUP, 7. A.M. Shah and B.S. Baviskar
(eds.), SocialStructure and Change Vol.I, OUP, 8. G. Shah (ed.), Caste and Democratic Politics in 9. N. B. Dirks, Castes of Mind: Colonialism and The Making of Modern 10. K. Iliah, Why I am not a Hindu, Samya, Calcutta, 1996. 11. G. Chakravarty
Spivak, ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ in
C. Nelson and L. Grossberg (eds.) Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture,
University of Illionois Press, 1987 |
HS-508 Colonial Economy and the Politics of Development
in India (3-1-0-8) Development and
Colonial State: Historiography; colonial
state and the social organization of production; stages of colonial
development: de-peasantization and
de-industrialization; transfer of western science and technology: managing
Indian natural resources; plantation economy: tea, indigo, coffee and rubber;
nationalist movement and people’s struggle: recourse to indigenous
development; discourse of development in India’s intellectual history: Nehru
and the Indian National Congress Texts/References: 1. A. K. Bagchi, Private Investment in 2. B. Zacaria, A Social and intellectual history of India’
Development, OUP, 2007. 3. B.R. Tomilson,
The Economy of Modern 4. D. Naroroji, Poverty and Un-British Rule in 5. V. Anstey, The Economic Development of 6. S. Ambirajan, Classical Political Economy and British
Administration in India, CUP, 1978. 7. B. Chandra, The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in |
HS-509
language issues in globalisation (3-1-0-8) Role of language in globalisation
and language problems in a globalising world, linguistic sustainability to sustainable development, language
identity, globalisation
and linguistic human rights; Communication issues and flow of language
across cultural and political boundaries: strategies of interlingualism,
technologism, esperantism;
Spread of English and its acculturation to local contexts of use, dynamics of
English use in post-colonial India; Minority language experiences, language endangerment and its implications: loss of indigenous
languages and knowledge systems; Creativity in language mixing;
Language in electronic media and global pop cultures. Texts/References:
1.
J. Maurais and M. A. Michael. (eds.) Languages
in a Globalising World. CUP, 2003 2. A. Pennycook . The Cultural Politics of English as an International
Language, Longman, 1994 3. D. 4. D. 5.
J. Aitchison and D. Lewis. (eds.).
New Media Language. Routledge, 2003. 6.
H. Berger and M. Carroll (eds.) Global pop, local language. University
Press ofMississippi, 2003. 7.
D. Nettle and S. Romaine Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World’s Languages,Oxford
University Press, 2000. |
HS-510 Development Anthropology (3-1-0-8) The Discourse of Development; Populism,
Anthropology and Development; The social logic approach: Norman Long and the
rural Anthropology of Development; Socio-anthropology of development: Comparativism: Multiculturalism: Transversality;
Role of values and Institutions in Development; Role of Indigenious
Knowledge; Anthropologists as Policy Advisers and
analysts; Assessment of Social Impact: Evaluation, Advocacy, Technology
Development Research. Text
Books: 1. S. Abram, and J. Waldren. (eds.) (1998), Anthropological Perspectives
on Loca Development: Knowledge and Sentiment in
Conflict. 2. A. Alberto and
N. Long. (2000), Anthropology, Development and Modernities:
Exploring Discourses, Counter-Tendencies and Violence. 3. ______, 2000,
“Reconfiguring Modernity and Development from an Anthropological
Perspective.” In Anthropology, Development and Modernities:
Exploring Discourses, Counter-Tendencies and Violence. Edited by A.
Alberto and N. Long, London: Routledge. 4.B.
J. Knippers, 1999, Development in Theory and
Practice, 2nd Ed. Boulder: Westview. 5. _____, 1993, Challenging
the Professions: Frontiers for Rural Development. 6. D. Booth, 1994,
Rethinking Social Development: Theory, Research and Practice. 7. J. Pierre and
O. de Sardan, 2005, Anthropology and Development. 8. L. Mair, 1984, Anthropology and Development. 9. W.W Rostow, 1960, The Stages of Economic Growth: A
Non-communist Manifesto. 10. E.F.
Schumacher, 1973, Small is Beautiful. Reference books 1. E. Croll, and D. J. Parkin, eds.,1992. Bush base, forest farm: culture, environment and development.
2. E. Crewe and Princeton: Oxford: Berg.Schech,
Susan; Haggis, Jane, 2000, Culture, and development: a critical introduction.
5. D. Warren, L. Michael, J. Slikkerveer, and D. Brokensha,
(eds.), 1995, The Cultural Dimension of Development:Indigenous Knowledge Systems. Publications. 6. A. Sen, 1999, Development
as Freedom. |
HS-511 Gender and
Development (3-1-0-8)
Conceptual Frameworks: Feminist Theories in Historical and Cross
-cultural Perspectives, Feminist Epistemology, Gender and Colonialism;
Environment: Development and Women’s Lives, Ecofeminism;
Ethics and Development: Applied Ethics, Global Bio-Ethics and Changing Gender
Relations, Gender, Technology and the Body; Population Politics: Fertility
and Family Planning; Religion
and Empowerment of Women, Religion and Democracy;
Humanitarian Dilemmas: Culture and Health. Texts: 1. D.
M. Juschka , Feminism in the Study of Religion:
A Reader, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001 2. K.
Kapadia, The Violence of Development: The
Politics of Identity, Gender and Social Inequalities in 3. V.
Shiva, Staying Alive.: Women, Ecology and
Survival in 4. M. U. Walker, Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics , Routledge, 1998 5. S. Benhabib,
Situating the Self: Gender, Community, and Postmodernism in Contemporary
Ethics, Routledge, 1992 References: 1. L. Sargent. 2. S. M. Wolf,
Feminism &
Bioethics: Beyond Reproduction, 3. T. Banuri and
M. Mahmood, Just Development: Beyond Adjustment with a
Human Face , University Press, 1997 4. M. K. Raj and R. M. Sudarshan,
Gender, Population and Development,
1998 5. M. Porter and E. R. Judd, Feminists Doing Development: A Practical
Critique, Zed Books, 1999 |
HS-512 CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT THEORY (3 1 0 8)
Development:
intellectual, imaginative and practical aspects; Genealogy of development
thinking: from colonial economics to development studies; Discourses of
development: education, modernisation, capitalism, Eurocentrism, technological imperative, globalisation, dependency theory; Development criticism:
feminism, pacifism, environmentalism, agrarianism; Postmodern critical theory
of development: new populism, anti-developmentalism,
ecofeminism; Cultural studies and post-development
paradigms: cultural politics, cultural analyses, deconstructing ideologies of
development. Texts: 1. R. Munck and D.O’Hearn eds, Critical
Development Theory: Contributions to a New Paradigm, Zed Books, 1999. 2. S. Corbridge, ed, Development Studies: A Reader, Arnold,
1995. References: 1. G. Rist, The History of Development: From
Western Origins to Global Faith, Zed Books, 2003. 2. M. P. Cowen and R. W. Shenton, Doctrines
of Development, Routledge, 1996. 3. 4. M. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule, Navajivan
Trust, 2003. 5. S. F. Alatas, Alternative
Discourses in Asian Social Science: Response to Eurocentrism,
Sage, 2006. 6. A. Escobar, Encountering Development:
The Making and Unmaking of the Third World, 1995. 7. M. Mies, Patriarchy and
Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour, Zed Books, 1999. 8. M. H. Marchand and J.
L. Parpart, eds, Feminism/Postmodernism/Development, Routledge, 1995. |
HS-513
TRANSNATIONALISM AND MIGRATION: ISSUES OF DEVELOPMENT (3-1-0-8) Transnationalism, migration and globalization;
colonialism and the history of world connections; cultural imperialism; nationalism
and identity: a post-colonial understanding; commodification
of local cultures; ethnography of selected transnational and migratory
communities in Texts/References 1. A. Benedict,
1991 Imagined Communities revised
ed. 2. H. Michael. Cultural
Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-state. 3. A. Appadurai, Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of
Globalization ( Minnesota Press,
1995; Saskia Sassen, Guests
and Aliens (New York: New Press, 1999) 4. A. Portes, L. E. Guarnizo and P. Landolt. “The study of transnationalism:
Pitfalls and promise of an emergent
field.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 22, no.
2 (March, 1999): 217-237. 5. A. M. Kraut, Silent Travellers: Germs, Genes and the “Immigrant Menace.” 6. P. van der
Veer, “Introduction.” In Nation and Migration: The Politics of
Space in the South Asian Diaspora, edited by van der
Veer. 7. E. Ferris, 1993, Beyond Borders: Refugees, Migrants, and
Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era. Trenton, New Jersey: The Red Sea Press and
Geneva: the WCC Press. 8. W. Giles, and H. Moussa, eds., 1996, Development
and Diaspora: Gender and the Refugee Experience. 9. D. F. Karaka, 2000,
History
of the Parsis: Including Their Manners, Customs,
Religion, and Present Position: Adamant Media Corporation; Mumbai |
HS 601 Philosophy of Social Sciences (3-1-0-8) Philosophy:
epistemology, metaphysics and ethics; Social sciences; Historical and
philosophical roots of social
sciences: Comte, Dilthey, Durkheim, Weber and Marx;
Modes of social inquiry: natural
scientific, critical social science, social constructionist viewpoints and
contemporary hermeneutics;
Instrumental reason and its critics; Abstraction and the life world; Debates
about value-neutrality;
Methodological holism and methodological individualism: holism/individualism debates, social
atomism and reductionism; Explanations in social sciences; Differences
between natural
and social sciences; Objectivism, relativism and objectivity. Texts/References: 1. R. Bishop, The Philosophy of the Social Sciences: An Introduction, Continuum
International, 2007. 2. A.Rosenberg, Philosophy
of Social Sciences,
Westview Press, 2008. 3. T. M. Peter,
A Realist Philosophy of Social
Science: Explanation and Understanding, Cambridge University
Press, 2006. 4. M. Hollis, The Philosophy of Social Sciences, Cambridge
University Press, 2000. 5. M. Martin
(ed.), Readings in the Philosophy of Social
Science,
MIT, 1994. |
HS 604
Development Finance (3-1-0-8) Capital accumulation
and investment requirement for development; Sources of capital formation: domestic and
international; Domestic financing of development: inflationary finance and
noninflationary finance;
Financial markets and institutions: money and the payment system, credit and the financial
system, central bank, commercial banks and recent developments, unregulated
credit markets; External
financing of development: necessity for external financing, public financial
aid: bilateral and
multilateral; External debt and its implications, private foreign investment
– benefits and costs, Foreign
Institutional Investors, Foreign Direct Investments, multinational
corporations; Foreign aid:
the development assistance debate. Texts/
References: 1. G. M. Meier and
J. E. Rauch, Leading Issues in Economic
Development,
8th
Ed.,
OUP, 2004. 2. L. M. Bhole, Financial
Institutions and Markets, Structure, Growth and Innovations, 3rd Ed.,
Tata-McGraw Hill Publishing Co. Ltd., 2001. 3. S. B. Gupta,
Monetary Economics, Institutions,
Theory and Policy,
S. Chand and Co. Ltd, 1997. 4. S. Ghatak, Introduction
to Development Economics, 4th Ed., Routledge, 2007. HS 605
Reflections on India’s Development (3-1-0-8) Ideas and
challenges that face the New India: Economic and social liberalizations ;
Impact on Indian private
and public lives; Indian traditions and the western imagination; Contemporary
India and the
argumentative tradition; Pluralist, interactive and dynamic heritage of
literary, cultural, political
and scientific developments in India; Social and economic transformation of
India. Texts/References: 1.
N. Nilekani, Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation, Penguin,
New Delhi , 2009. 2.
A Sen, The Argumentative Indian, Picador,2004. 3.
G. Das, The Elephant Paradigm, Penguin
Books India, 2003. 4.
A. P.J. Abdul Kalam, India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium,
Penguin Books India, 2003. 5. S. Tharoor, The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India
in the 21st Century, Arcade,
2007. 6. G.
Das, India Unbound, Penguin
Books India, 2002. 7.
A. P.J. Abdul Kalam, Ignited
Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India, Penguin Books, 2003. 8.
S. Tharoor, India:From Midnight to the Millenium,
Harper Perennial, 1998. |
HS 606
Sociology of Gender (3-1-0-8) Sociology of gender; Social construction of
gender: socialisation, stereotypes and
inequalities; Perspectives on gender: liberal, Marxist,
socialist, radical, Black, Third World; Gender and social movements: from global to local; Gender in
the economy, culture and polity: labour, law,
family, health,
media, representation and reservation;
Discourse on gender and development in India. Texts/References: 1.
A. Hochschild, The Second Shift, Avon Books, 2003. 2.
B. Agarwal, Field of One’s Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia,
Cambridge University Press,
2003. 3.
J, Lorber (ed.), The Social Construction of Gender, Sage
Publication, 1991. 4.
N. Kabeer, Reversed
Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought,
Verso, 2003. 5.
I. Agnihotri and V. Mazumdar,
“Changing Terms of Political Discourse: Women's Movement in India,
1970s-1990s”, in Economic and Political
Weekly, 30 (29), 1995, pp. 1869-1878. 6.
K. Chanana, “Accessing Higher Education: The
Dilemma of Schooling Women, Minorities, Scheduled
Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Contemporary India”, in Higher Education,
26(1), 1993,
pp. 69-92. 7.
N. Menon, `Elusive “Woman”: Feminism and Women’s
Reservation Bill’, in Economic
and Political Weekly, 35(43/44), 2000, pp. 3835-3841. 8.
N. Yuval-Davis. ‘Women, Citizenship and Difference’, in Feminist Review,
(57), 1997, pp. 4-27. |
HS 607
Science, Technology and Society (3-1-0-8) Science–technology
relationship: hierarchical, symbiotic and coalescing; Social context of production of
scientific knowledge: demarcation, autonomy, cognitive authority of science
and technology, and
responses; Methods of science; Science as a social institution and the ethos
of science;
Inequalities in science and technology: rewards and recognitions; Social legitimation: interests,
meanings and values; Reception of modern science and technology in India;
Changing context of
production of scientific knowledge: from public resource to intellectual
property; Science and
technology policies in India. Texts and References: 1.
D. MacKenzie and J. Wajcman
(eds.), The Social Shaping of
Technology, 2nd Ed., McGraw Hill Education /Open University, 1999. 2.
N. Stehr and V. Meja
(eds.), Society and Knowledge: Contemporary
Perspectives in the Sociology of Knowledge and Science,
Revised 2nd Ed., Transaction Publishers, 2005. 3.
E. J. Hackett, O. Amsterdamska, M. Lynch and J. Wajcman (eds.), The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies,
The MIT Press, 2008. 4. T.
McGrew, M. Alspector-Kelly and F. Allhoff (eds.), Philosophy of Science: An Historical Anthology,
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 5.
S. I. Habib and D. Raina
(eds.), Social History of Science
in Colonial India, Oxford University Press, 2007. |
HS 608
Rural Labour Market in India (3-1-0-8) Overview of rural
labour market in India: size and key features,
agricultural and non-agricultural wage labour; Concepts of unemployment: seasonal unemployment,
underemployment, disguised unemployment,
work participation, labour absorption; Wage rates:
subsistence wage, minimum wages act in
India, empirical cases on wages, types of wage contracts, forms of, levels
and trends of agricultural
wages; Gender gap in wages: male and female wages, levels and trends,
disparity; Labour-credit
interlinkages: labour
services and unfreedom in agriculture, bonded labour, attached labour,
poverty and agricultural labour; Welfare programmes: government wage employment and self
employment programmes, forms of market
interventions in the labour market. Texts/References: 1.
K. Sharma Labour Economics, Anmol
Publications Private Limited, 2006. 2.
P. Lanjouw and N. Stern, Economic Development in Palanpur
Over Five Decades, Oxford University Press,
1998. 3.
B. Agarwal, A field of One’s Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia,
Reprint, Cambridge University
Press, 1998. 4.
V. K. Ramachandran, Wage Labour and Unfreedom in Agriculture,
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990. 5. Consumer Expenditure and Employment
Unemployment Round , Reports of the National Sample Survey
Organization, Quinquennial rounds, 2004-05 6.
S. R. Osmani, “Wage Determination in Rural Labour Markets: The Theory of Implicit Cooperation”, in Journal of Development Economics,
(34) 1-2, 1990, pp. 3-23. |
HS 609
Globalization and Sustainable Development (3-1-0-8) Globalization and
sustainable development: terms, concepts and challenges, inter-generational
and intra-generational
effects, human development, indigenous knowledge, governance and sustainable development; Climate
change as a challenge to sustainable development: interrelationship between climate change
and economic development, impact of climate change on natural resources and livelihood;
Mitigation and adaptation to climate change: role of State, civil society,
firms, corporate social
responsibility, international environmental agreements and climate change. Texts/References: 1.
J.N. Bhagawati, In Defence of Globalization, Oxford
University Press, 2006. 2.
S.J. Gustave, “Two perspectives on globalization and
the environment”, in J. G. Speth (ed.), Worlds Apart: Globalization and the
Environment, Island Press, Washington DC, 2003, pp. 1-18. 3.
T. J. Hardy, Climate Change - Causes,
Effects, and Solutions, John Wiley & Sons 2003 4.
A. Markandya and K. Halsnaes
(eds.), Climate Change and
Sustainable Development: Prospects for Developing Countries, Earthscan, 2002. 5.
W. M. Adams, Green Development:
Environment and Sustainability in the Third World. 2nd Ed., Routledge, London, 2001. 6.
World Bank, Report Sustainable
Development in a Dynamic World: Transforming Institutions, Growth, and Quality of Life,
World Development Report, 2003 7.
T. Panayotou, Globalization and Environment, CID Working
Papers 53, Center for International Development
at Harvard University, 2000 |
HS 610
Development and Human Rights ( 3-1-0-8) Human rights,
development, linkages between human rights and development; Perspectives:
right to development - UN Declaration,
‘Rights based’ approach to development; International convention on rights: Magna Carta, migration and trafficking; Indian Constitution and
Human Rights: right to food, shelter,
education and health, fulfilment of universal
social and economic rights; Issues in India: right to food,
employment, education, health, environment, child rights, women’s rights,
development and displacement,
development and human trafficking, impact of Information Communication Technologies
(ICTs); Role of NGOs. Texts/ References: 1.
A. Clapham, Human Rights, Oxford University Press, 2007. 2.
R. Bhargava, Politics and Ethics of the Indian Constitution Oxford
University Press, 2009. 3.
S. Hickey and D. Mitlin (eds.), Rights Based Approaches to Development:
Exploring the Potentials and Pitfalls, Kumarian
Press, 2009. |
HS 611
Human Development: Theory and Practice (3-1-0-8) Human development
in theory: Amartya Sen -
capability approach, John Rawls - critique of utilitarianism, Mahbub ul Haq
– the making of human development index; Conceptual issues: basic needs and
capabilities, capabilities and human development, functionings
and freedom, agency functions,
collective action, Millennium Development Goals; Human Development Index:
evolution, measurement,
refinements, debates, world, national and state Human Development Reports; Human development
in practice: Multi-dimensional poverty measures, country case studies;
Hunger, unemployment and
public action: food security, employment security; Indian case: state of the
Indian farmer, agrarian
crisis and farmer’s suicides, state of primary and secondary schooling,
public health,
gender related conflicts. Texts/References: 1.A. Sen, Development
as Freedom, Oxford University Press, 2000 2.S.
Fukuda-Parr and A. K. Shivakumar (eds.), Readings in Human Development: Concepts,
Measures and Policies for a Development Paradigm,
Oxford University Press, 2005. 3.J. Dreze and A. Sen
(eds.), The Political Economy of
Hunger, Volume 1: Entitlement and Well-Being,Clarendon
Press Oxford, 1990. 4.UNDP, World Human Development Reports,
United Nations, 1990-2011. 5.K. Haq and R. Ponzio (eds.), Pioneering the Human Development Revolution:
An Intellectual Biography of Mahbub ul Haq,
Oxford University Press, 2008 6.J. Rawls,
Justice as Fairness: A
Restatement, The Belknap Press, 2000 |
HS 612
Peace and Conflict Resolution (3-1-0-8) Concepts: peace,
insurgency, war, armed conflict, ethnic violence; Conflict management and
conflict resolution;
Techniques and strategies for resolutions; Negotiation, mediation, good
offices involving a third party,
conciliation or facilitation, military solution: case of Sri Lanka, Gandhian models of satyagraha,
peace education, peace research and recent developments; Factors leading to continuation of
conflicts and armed movements for a long time, insurgency economy, high
intensity and
low intensity conflicts. Origins of armed
conflict in India’s North East; Selected cases, secessionist armed movements,
the Naga, the Mizo and the ULFA movements; Armed ethnic movements: the Bodo and the Tripura Tribal movements;
External factors involved; Peace initiative since 1953, Naga Peace Mission
and JP Mission, the
civil society initiatives, the formal initiative of the Government of India,
inter-ethnic conflicts
and consequences. Texts/references: 1.A. Dutta and R. Bhuyan,
Genesis of Peace and
Conflict, Akansha,New
Delhi, 2007. 2.D.
Bloomfield, Peacemaking Strategies in
Northern Ireland: Building Complementarities in Conflict Management Theory, Macmillan,
London, 1997. 3.J.B. Bhattacharjee, Roots of Insurgency in North East India, Akansha, New Delhi, 2007. 4.J. Burton, Resolving
Deep-Rooted Conflict: A Handbook, University Press of
America, Lanham, 2003. 5.J. Galtung, Peace by Peaceful Means: Peace and Conflict, Development and
Civilization, Sage, London,
1996. 6.M.
Deutsch, The Resolution of
Conflict: Constructive and Destructive Processes, Yale
University Press,
New Haven, 1973. 7.S. Nag, Marginality: Ethnicity,
Insurgency and Sub-nationalism in North-East India, Manohar, New Delhi, 2002. 8. W.r Hussain (ed.), Peace Tools and
Conflict Nuances In India’s Notheast, Wordwaves India, Guwahati, 2010. |