Paper-I : Local Self Government in India

1. System of Local Self Government : Origin and Development. 2. Main Provisions of the 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments. 3. Three Tier Panchayati Raj System. 4. Municipality and Municipal Corporations : Composition and Functions. 5. Finance of Local Self Government of B.D.O. 6. Public Participation and Local Self Government : Gram Sabha and Social Audit. 7. The Impact of Women’s Quota on Panchayati Raj System. 8. Local Autonomy : Problem and Prospect.

Paper-II : Comparative Government and Politics

1. Comparative Politics : Meaning, Nature and Scope. 2. Salient Features of the Constitution (Britain, USA, France, Switzerland and China). 3. Approaches of the Study of Comparative Politics : System Theory and Structural Functional Approach. 4. Federal and Unitary Systems. 5. Constitutional Structures : Executive. 6. Constitutional Structures : Legislature. 7. Constitutional Structures : Judiciary. 8. Process of Constitutional Amendments.

Paper-III : Ancient Medieval Western Political Thought

1. Characteristics of Ancient Western Political Thought. 2. Plato-Justice, Education, Communism and Philosopher King. 3. Aristotle-State, Citizenship, Slavery and Revolution. 4. Cicero : Natural Law. 5. Characteristics of Medieval Political Thought. 6. St. Thomas Acquinas.7. St. Augustine. 8. Marsiglio of Padua.