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University of Delhi — B.A. (Hons.) Political Science — official course contents PDF
Semester I papers and unit structure as published in the official Department of Political Science course contents, effective from the academic year 2011-2012 onwards.
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Paper III · 4 units · 60 lectures · 100 marks
Official course objective: To acquaint students with the constitutional design of state structures and institutions, and their actual working over time. The Indian Constitution accommodates conflicting impulses — liberty and justice, territorial decentralization and a strong union — within itself. The course traces the embodiment of these conflicts in constitutional provisions, and shows how they have played out in constitutional practice, encouraging a study of state institutions in their mutual interaction and with the wider non-institutional environment.
Marks pattern (official): Max Marks 100 = Theory Exam 75 + Internal Assessment 25. Teaching: 5 lectures + 1 tutorial per week (main papers).
Units
Published lectures
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Study resources
All four sections are 15 lectures and equally weighted. Federalism and decentralization, and Security Laws, are especially frequent long-answer subjects. Paper III also states there will be a compulsory question from Topic 1 with internal choice.
The formation of the Constituent Assembly; the philosophy of the Constitution and its main features • Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles
Unit notes · key points · 15 lectures
The Legislature: Parliament • The Executive: President, Prime Minister and Governor • The Judiciary: The Supreme Court
Unit notes · key points · 15 lectures
Centre-state relations; constitutional provisions regarding emergencies and centre-state relations; special provisions for some states and the fifth and sixth schedule areas • Third tier of government: panchayati raj; urban local bodies
Unit notes · key points · 15 lectures
Preventive detention laws and constitutional exceptions • Extra-ordinary laws: anti-terror laws, laws against organized crimes
Unit notes · key points · 15 lectures
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Theory examination
Internal assessment
Maximum marks
A one-line orientation to every unit in this paper, so you can see the shape of the whole syllabus before deciding where to start. Full notes for each unit are on its own page.
Explains how the Constitution was made and what it stands for. The formation of the Constituent Assembly, the philosophy of the Constitution and its main features set out its design intent; Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles then express the liberties and social objectives that the document balances.
Read unit 1 notes →Surveys the three organs of government as the syllabus frames them. The Legislature is Parliament; the Executive comprises the President, the Prime Minister and the Governor; the Judiciary is represented by the Supreme Court. Follow the paper’s own structure rather than a generic textbook division.
Read unit 2 notes →Covers the distribution of power between levels of government. Centre-state relations, constitutional provisions for emergencies, and special provisions for some states and for fifth and sixth schedule areas handle the union–state dimension. The third tier of government — panchayati raj and urban local bodies — extends federal logic downward through decentralisation.
Read unit 3 notes →Examines security legislation and its constitutional limits. Preventive detention laws and constitutional exceptions test the boundary between liberty and security, while extra-ordinary laws — anti-terror legislation and laws against organized crimes — show how emergency powers persist in ordinary peacetime law.
Read unit 4 notes →The published lecture allocation is the best guide to how much attention each unit deserves. Working through the units in the order below, weighted by their lecture counts, keeps your effort proportional to how much of the syllabus each unit represents.
One dot per published lecture. A unit with more dots is worth proportionally more revision time and, on the published structure, more likely to carry a larger share of the question paper.
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