| Lecture 01 |
Challenges before India after independence |
- Partition and Communal Riots
- Radcliffe Commission and Demarcation of Boundaries
- Consequences of Partition
- Relief and rehabilitation of Refugees
- The Assassination of Gandhiji
- Relations with Pakistan
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| Lecture 02 |
Consolidation of India as a nation |
- Integration of Princely States
- French and Portuguese settlement
- The Language Problem
- Official Language Debate
- The Linguistic Reorganisation of the States
- Recent Reorganisation of States
- Tribal Integration
- Impact of colonial policies on Tribals
- Roots of India’s Tribal Policy
- Evaluation of the tribal policy and its impact
- Certain positive developments due to the state’s initiative 18 Tribals in the Northeast
- Challenge of Building Democracy
- The emergence of electoral politics
- Challenges before ECI and the conduction of the first general election
- Contributions of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
- The Dominance of the Congress System
- Nature of Congress Dominance
- The Emergence of Opposition Parties
- Various opposition parties
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| Lecture 03 |
Economic consolidation |
- Ideas of development
- Planning
- Formation of Planning Commission
- First Five-Year Plan
- Second Five-Year Plan
- Third Five-Year Plan
- Achievements of Plans from 1947–65
- Green Revolution
- The positive impact of the Green Revolution
- The negative impacts of the Green Revolution
- Land Reforms in India
- Abolition of Intermediaries (Zamindari System)
- Tenancy reforms
- Ceilings on Land Holding
- Consolidation of Holdings:
- The Bhoodan Movement
- Cooperatives
- The Success of Cooperatives: The Milk Cooperatives and Operation Flood
- Impact of operation flood
- Limitations of Cooperatives
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| Lecture 04 |
India’s external relations |
- Evolution of India’s Foreign Policy
- Non-Alignment Policy
- India’s Relations with neighbours
- Relation with Pakistan
- Relations with China
- India’s Relations with Superpowers during the Cold War
- Shastri Era
- Role of Shastri in Post Independence Consolidation of India
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| Lecture 05 |
Emergency |
- The Crisis of Democratic Order
- Emergency
- Background to the emergency
- V Jai Prakash (JP) movement/Total revolution Impact of Emergency
- Lessons from Emergency
- Politics after Emergency
- Naxalite Movement and Maoist Insurgency
- Communalism
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| Lecture 06 |
Regionalism and popular movements |
- Economic Imbalances & Regionalism
- Sons of Soil Doctrine
- Demand for Dravida Nādu
- Punjab Issue
- Problems in the north-eastern regions
- Demands for autonomy
- Secessionist Movements
- Movements against outsiders
- Accommodation of Regional Aspirations and National Integration
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| Lecture 07 |
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- Rise of Popular Movements
- Environmental Movements
- Party-based movements
- Non-Party Movements
- Dalit Movement
- Agrarian Struggles Since Independence
- Telangana Peasant Struggle
- The Srikakulam Peasant Uprising
- Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU)
- Anti-Arrack Movement
- OBC Movements
- New Farmers Movement
- Women’s Movement
- Civil Democratic Movement
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| Lecture 08 |
Recent developments in Indian Politics |
- Context of the 1990s
- The Era of Coalition and Alliance Politics
- Political Rise of other backward classes
- Mandal politics
- New Economic Policy 1991
- The era of ICT (Information and Communication Technology)
- Lok Sabha Elections 2004
- Growing Consensus
- Sri Lankan Tamils issue
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