Political Science

Block 1 – Introduction to Modern Indian Political Thought
Genesis and Salient Features of Modern Indian Political Thought

Block 2 – Encounter with Modernity and the Question of Reforms
Rammohan Roy: Social Reform and Affirmation of the Modern
Pandita Ramabai: Women and Religions Authority

Block 3 – Engagement With Tradition
Swami Vivekananda: Reclaiming Tradition and the Idea of Self – Nara Narayana
M.K. Gandhi: Critique of Tradition and the Idea of Swaraj

Block 4 – Imaginaries of the Nation and the World
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: Constitutional Democracy and Social Justice
Rabindranath Tagore: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism
Jawaharlal Nehru: State, Nation Building and Secularism
Ram Manohar Lohiya: Socialist Democracy
M.N. Roy: Radical Humanism

Block 5 – Community and Nation
Mohammed Iqbal: Community, Religion and Modernity
V.D. Savarkar: Hindutva