BHARATIYA SHASAN AUR RAJNITI

This is an undergraduate textbook on Indian Government and Politics. It discusses political development in India since independence. Divided into five parts its contents include: Overview of the Indian Political system, Problems facing India on the eve of independence, The Constituent assembly: perspective on the Indian polity, Constitutional provisions and institutional functioning; Indian constitution-Fundamental rights, directive principles and fundamental duties, Nature of Indian state, Social structure and the democratic process, perspectives and problems, The federal structure and process; area of tension, state reorganization policy in India, Indian Parliament, President and federal executive, Judiciary: judicial review and judicial activism, State governments and their functioning, Constitutional amendments: socio-political implications; Party system and elections, Indian party system: national and regional parties, Elections in India: politics and voting behavior; Development process- Peasent, labor and tribal movements in India, Woment and Dalit and backward class movements, Problems of underdevelopment; poverty,illiteracy,regional imbalance and environment degradation, Nation integration, Development process and foreign policy; This book also discusses issues like Right to education, Right to information, human rights, gender, environment and rights of forest dwellers.