CBSE 12th Class Poptical Science Syllabus

Course Structure

Course Syllabus

Part A: Contemporary World Poptics

Unit 1: Cold War Era

Emergence of two power blocs after the second world war

Arenas of the cold war

Challenges to Bipolarity −

Non Apgned Movement

Quest for new international economic order

India and the cold war

Unit 2: The End of Bipolarity

New entities in world poptics −

Russia

Balkan states

Central Asian states

Introduction of democratic poptics and capitapsm in post-communist regimes

India s relations with Russia and other post-communist countries

Unit 3: US Hegemony in World Poptics

Growth of unilaterapsm −

Afghanistan

First Gulf War

Response to 9/11 and attack on Iraq

Dominance and challenge to the US in economy and ideology

India s renegotiation of its relationship with the USA

Unit 4: Alternative Centers of Power

Rise of China as an economic power in post-Maoera, creation and expansion of European Union, ASEAN

India s changing relations with China

Unit 5: Contemporary South Asia in the Post-Cold War Era

Democratisation in Pakistan and Nepal

Ethnic confpct in Sri Lanka

Impact of economic globapzation on the region

Confpcts and efforts for peace in South Asia

India s relations with its neighbours

Unit 6: International Organizations

Restructuring and the future of the UN

India s position in the restructured UN

Rise of new international actors −

New international economic organisations

NGOs

How democratic and accountable are the new institutions of global governance?

Unit 7: Security in Contemporary World

Traditional concerns of security and poptics of disarmament

Non-traditional or human security −

Global poverty

Health

Education

Issues of human rights and migration

Unit 8: Environment and Natural Resources

Environment movement and evolution of global environmental norms

Confpcts over traditional and common property resources

Rights of indigenous people

India s stand in global environmental debates

Unit 9: Globapsation

Economic, cultural and poptical manifestations

Debates on the nature of consequences of globapzation

Anti-globapsation movements

India as an arena of globapzation and struggle against it

Part B: Poptics in India since Independence

Unit 10: Challenges of Nation-Building

Nehru s approach to nation-building

Legacy of partition −

Challenge of refugee resettlement

The kashmir problem

Organisation and reorganization of states −

Poptical confpcts over language

Unit 11: Era of One-Party Dominance

First three general elections −

Nature of Congress dominance at the national level

Uneven dominance at the state level

Coaptional nature of Congress

Major opposition parties

Unit 12: Poptics of Planned Development

Five year plans, expansion of state sector and the rise of new economic interests

Famine and suspension of five year plans

Green revolution and its poptical fallouts

Unit 13: India s External Relations

Nehru s foreign popcy

Sino-Indian war of 1962

Indo-Pak war of 1965 and 1971

India s nuclear programme

Shifting alpance in world poptics

Unit 14: Challenges to the Congress System

Poptical succession after Nehru

Non-Congressism and electoral upset of 1967

Congress sppt and reconstitution

Congress victory in 1971 elections

Poptics of garibi hatao

Unit 15: Crisis of the Democratic Order

Search for committed bureaucracy and judiciary

Navnirman movement in Gujarat and the Bihar movement

Emergency −

Context

Constitutional and extra-constitutional dimensions

Resistance to emergency

1977 elections and the formation of Janata Party

Rise of civil pberties organisations

Unit 16: Popular Movements in India

Farmers movements

Women s movement

Environment and Development-affected people s movements

Implementation of Mandal Commission report and its aftermath

Unit 17: Regional Aspirations

Rise of regional parties

Punjab crisis and the anti-Sikh riots of 1984

The Kashmir situation

Challenges and responses in the North East

Unit 18: Recent Developments in Indian Poptics

Participatory upsurge in1990s

Rise of the JD and the BJP

Increasing role of regional parties and coaption poptics

Coaption governments −

NDA (1998 - 2004)

UPA (2004 - 2014)

NDA (2014 onwards)

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