Department of Political Science

Thrust Areas

The current thrust areas of the department are as follows.

• International Relations
  • South Asia: forms of postcolonial nationalism; nature of conflicts and prospects of cooperation; impact of WTO regime and globalisation; cross-border migration, ethnicity
  • Globalisation: deconstruction of the dominant discourse and exploring critical theorisation Peace and conflict resolution
  • Indian foreign policy discourse
  • International refugee law
• Indian Politics
  • Liberalisation and new economic policies
  • Democracy and political institutions in India
  • Federalism and centre-state relations
  • Common property resources and politics of development
  • Political thought of Ambedkar and Gandhi
  • Dalit politics in Punjab and Haryana
  • Politics of forest governance in Himachal Pradesh
  • State politics in Punjab, Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir
  • Legal constitutional framework of autonomy in India
  • Politics of North East: Arunachal Pradesh
• Geopolitics
  • Indian Ocean region
  • Antarctic region
  • Mid-West and Central Asia