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The department was established in 1952, with about 40 Postgraduate students. Since then the strength of the students has gone up to 300 and the faculty strength is presently 16. The research activity of the department has also correspondingly grown over time. Since 1982 over 150 Ph. D. degrees have been awarded and since 1987, approximately 412 students have successfully completed M. Phil. degrees.
The growth of the Department has coincided with the progress of the discipline of political science from a narrow body of legal and institutional knowledge to a more comprehensive social science that integrates and interrogates sociological, economic, philosophical and cultural dimensions and thereby better relates to a purposive study of politics keeping especially the Indian reality in focus.
The department offers M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. programmes through a process of cooperative teaching with the help of teachers from various colleges of the University. In addition, diploma programmes in International Law and Law of International Institutions are offered through the Indian Academy of International Law, New Delhi. The founding head of the Department, Professor C.J.Chacko, was an expert in this field. Among the earliest faculty, members of Pennsylvania, a specialist in Indian, South Asian, and international politics. The Department was perhaps the first academic unit in the country to have introduced compulsory M.A. courses in Modern Indian Political Thought during the Headship of Professor Randhir Singh.
On the collaborative research front, the department is committed on an inter-disciplinary thematic thrust area of Democracy, Development and Peace, with generous support by University Grants Commission as Departmental Special Assistance. This is the third phase of DSA which was initially granted by the UGC in 1989.
This will help build on the traditional strengths in various sub-fields as well as across disciplinary boundaries. This thematic thrust area will strive to capture the centrality of modern political life in India and beyond in a research agenda that will also translate into meaningful policy choices for developing countries in general and India in particular. |
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Professor Manoranjan Mohanty, M.A (Delhi), Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley) Main Fields: Comparative Politics and Chinese Politics, member of Editorial Board of China Quarterly and China Report.
Books: Revolutionary violence: A Study of Maoist Movement in India (1977), The Political Philosophy of Mao Tse tung (1978). Chinese Revolution (ed. 1992), Why is Orissa Poor? (1993), People’s Rights (co-ed, 1998), Contemporary Indian Political Theory (forthcoming)
Professor M.P.Singh, M.A. (Patna), Ph. D. (Alberta)
Main Fields: Indian and Canadian Politics, Philosophy of Science, Research Methodology
Books: Cohesion in a Predominant Party: The Pradesh Congress and Party Politics in Bihar (1975); Split in a Predominant Party: Indian National Congress in 1969, (1980); Regionalism and National Unity in Canada and India, India at Polls; Parliamentary Elections in Federal Phase (co-author) (forthcoming).
Professor Susheela Kaushik,
M.A (Madras), Ph.D. (ISIS)
Main Fields: Indian Politics and International Politics.
Books: Agony of Vietnam (1971); Back to The Front: the Unfinished Story of Vietnam (1979); Elections in India: Their Social Basis (1982)
Professor Subrata Mukherjee, M.A. (Delhi) Ph.D. (Indiana)
Main fields: Political Theory/Comparative Studies
Books: History of Socialist Thought, (Co-author) (2000)
Professor Neera Chandhoke, M.A (Delhi); Ph.D. (Delhi)
Main Fields: Political Theory/Comparative Politics
Books: State and Civil Society Explorations in Political Theory, (1995); Beyond Secularism. The Rights of Religious Minorities (1999); The Conceits of Civil Society, Forthcoming,
Professor Rajeev Bhargava, M.Phil.; D.Phil. (Oxford)
Main Fields: Political Theory/History of Political Thought/Philosophy of Social Science
Books: Individualism in Social Science (1992), Secularism and its Critics (ed.) (1998), Multiculturalism, Liberalism and Democracy (ed.) with A. Bagchi and R. Sudarshan (1999), Democracy and Transformation (ed. with F. Frankel etal. (2000).
Professor Gopal N. Guru, M.Phil., Ph.D. (JNU)
Main Fields: Indian Politics/ Indian Political Thought/ Social Theory
Ambedkar Reader (Penguin), Dalit Reader (OUP), Reverse Orientalism (Forth coming)
Dr. Bidyut Chakrabarty, Ph.D. (London School of Economics)
Main Field : Public Administration, Modern Indian Political Thought
Books: Subhas Chandra Bose and Middle Class Radicalism, Delhi, 1990; Local Politics and Indian Nationalism, 1991- 42, 1997; Biplabi and the 1942 Open Rebellion, forthcoming; Communal Identity and its Construction in India, 2002, Public Administration Reader, 2002; (ed.), Secularism and Indian Polity, 1990; (ed.), Centre-State Relations in India, 1990 ;(ed.), Whither India’s democracy, 1995
Dr. Shanta Varma, MA, Ph. D (Delhi)
Main Fields: International Relations
Book: Mascow and India, 1999.
Dr. Veena Kukreja, MA, Ph.D. (Delhi)
Main Fields: South Asia, International Politics
Books: Military Intervention in Politics: A Case Study of Pakistan, 1987; Civil Military Relations in South Asia, 1991; Contemporary Pakistan, Forth Coming.
Dr. Nivedita Menon, M.Phil (JNU), Ph.D. (DU)
Main Fields: Gender and Politics, Political Theory
Book: Gender and Politics in India (edited) 1999. Forthcoming
Dr. Satyajit Singh, M.A (DU) M.Phil (DU), M.Phil. Development Studies (IDS, Sussex) Ph.D. (DU)
Main Fields: Public Administration/ Policy Development and Environment
Book: Taming the Waters: Political Economy of Large Dams in India, 1997; (co-ed) Dam and the Nation: Displacement and Resettlement in Narmada, 1997
Dr. Pradip Kumar Dutta,
M.A (English); DU, M.A. History (DU); M.Phil. (DU), Ph.D. (DU)
Main Fields: Modern Indian Politics and Political thought
Book: Carving Blocs: Communal Ideology in Early Twentieth Century, Bengal, (1999); co-author, Khaki Shorts Saffron Flags: A Study of the Hindu Right.
Mr. N.Sukumar, M.A.; M.Phil. (Hyderabad)
Main Fields: Indian Thought/ Human Rights
Dr. Ashok Acharya M. A. (Utkal); M. Phil. (Delhi) Ph. D. (Toronto)
Main Fields: Political Theory/ Indian Politics/ History of Political Thought. |
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