RBSE Class 12 Political Science Syllabus 2023-24 - Check Rajasthan Board 12th Political Science Syllabus

PART A-CONTEMPORARY WORLD POLITICS

1. The End of Bipolarity

Topics to be focused:

a) The Soviet System

b) Gorbachev and the disintegration

c) Causes and Consequences of disintegration of Soviet Union

d) Shock Therapy and its Consequences

e) New entities in world politics Russia Balkan States Central Asian States

f) India's relations with Russia and other post-communist countries

• List the fundamental components of the Soviet System.
• Talk about the causes and consequences of the Soviet Union's dissolution.
• Analyze the effects of a world with only one pole.
• Examine the aspects of shock therapy.
• Examine the latest events that have occurred in the post-communist nations.
• Follow the developments between Russia and India.

8 Marks

2. Contemporary Centres of Power

Topics to be focused:

a) European Union

b) Association of Southeast Asian Nations

c) Rise of China as an economic power

d) Japan and South Korea as emerging powers)

• Examine and contrast the significance of ASEAN and the European Union.
• Analyze the Chinese economy's growth and its effect on global politics.
• Describe China-Indian relations in brief.

8 Marks

3. Contemporary South Asia

Topics to be focused:

a) Military and Democracy in Pakistan and Bangladesh

b) Monarchy and Democracy in Nepal

c) Ethnic Conflict and Democracy in Sri Lanka

d) India-Pakistan Conflicts

e) India and its Neighbours

f) Peace and Cooperation

• Determine the names and locations of the seven South Asian nations.
• Recognize that South Asia's democratic record has been uneven.
• Analyze the function of political figures.
• Consider the reasons behind the different movements and conflicts in this area.
• Justify SAARC's formation.
• Recognize China's and the US's involvement in South Asia.

6 Marks

4. International Organizations

Topics to be focused:

a) Meaning and importance of International Organisations

b) Evolution of the UN

c) Structure and function of International Organisations

d) Principal Organs of UN

e) Reform of the UN after Cold War

f) Reform of Structures, Processes and Jurisdiction of the UN

g) India and the UN Reforms h) Key Agencies: IMF, World Bank, WTO, ILO, IAEA.

i) NGO: Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch.

j) Implications and Future of International Organizations

• Explain what an international organization is.
• Respect the United Nations' and its agencies' roles.
• Consider what's going on in the post-Cold War era.
• Recognize the need for changes within the UN

6 Marks

5. Security in the Contemporary World

Topics to be focused:

a) Meaning and Type of Security.

b) Traditional concept of security

c) Non-tradition notions of Security.

d) New Sources of Threats

e) Cooperative Security

f) India’s Security strategy

• Recognize the causes of security threats
• Enhance analytical skills to provide solutions to security concerns.
• Develop critical thinking about the role of various stakeholders in ensuring security today.

5 Marks

6. Environment and Natural Resources

Topics to be focused:

a) Environmental Concerns

b) Global Commons

c) Common but differentiated Responsibilities

d) India’s Stand on Environment Issues

e) Environmental Movements

f) Resource Geopolitics

g) Rights of Indigenous peoples 

• List and describe the information about global environmental issues.
• Acknowledge and comprehend the necessity of protecting vital resources
• Show understanding of and gratitude for India's role in environmental protection.
• Acknowledge the necessity of conserving resources and demonstrate accountability for judicious utilization in order to promote sustainable growth.
• Recognize the concerns of indigenous communities and the ways in which governments around the world address them.

7 Marks

PART B-POLITICS IN INDIA SINCE INDEPENDENCE

1. Challenges of Nation Building

Topics to be focused:

a) Challenges for the new Nation. Three Challenges.

b) Partition: Displacement and Rehabilitation. Consequences of Partition.

c) Integration of Princely States. The problem. Government’s approach. Hyderabad, Manipur

d) Reorganisation of States.

• Examine the difficulties India faced after gaining independence.
• Describe the events leading up to India's partition.
• Describe the conditions that led the various princely states to sign the Instrument of Accession.
• Examine how language evolved to serve as the foundation for state restructuring.
• Examine the part leaders play in the development of the nation.

7 Marks

2. Era of One-Party Dominance

Topics to be focussed:

a) Challenge of building democracy.

b) Congress dominance in the first three general elections. Nature of Congress dominance, Congress as a social and ideological coalition. Tolerance and management of Factions

c) Emergence of opposition parties

• Appreciate the sustenance of democratic politics in the country.
• Evaluate the electoral politics post-Independence
• Assess the dominance of the Indian National Congress from 1952 to 1967.
• Evaluate the role of Opposition parties

6 Marks

3. Politics of Planned Development

Topics to be focussed:

a) Political contestation. Ideas of Development. Planning, Planning Commission

b) The Early Initiatives, The First Five Year Plan. Rapid Industrialisation

• Identify the varied options considered by the government to balance growth and socio-economic justice.
• Know the difference between Left and Right Ideology
• Understand the need for the formation of the Planning Commission.
• Appreciate the need for strategic long-term development programme and policies

7 Marks

5. Challenges to and Restoration of the Congress System

Topics to be focused:

a) Challenge of Political Succession, From Nehru to Shastri, From Shastri to Indira Gandhi

b) Fourth General Election 1967, Context of the Election. Non Congressism, Electoral Verdict, Coalitions, Defections

c) Split in the Congress, Indira vs the Syndicate, Presidential Election 1969

d) The 1971 Election and Restoration of Congress, The outcome and after Restoration?

• Recognize the difficulties in governing after Nehru.
• Consider the opposition's unity and the division within Congress as a threat to the power of Congress.
• Evaluate and contrast the current Congress with the previous one.
• Analyze the steps Indira Gandhi took to overcome the obstacles she faced and the process of the Congress system's restoration.

6 Marks

8. Recent Developments in Indian Politics

Topics to be focused

a) Context of 1990s

b) Era of Coalition Alliance Politics

c) Political rise if the Backward Classes Mandal Implemented Political Fallouts

d) Communalism, Secularism and Democracy. 

Ayodhya Dispute Demolition and after

e) Emergence of New Consensus

f) Lok Sabha Elections 2004

g) Growing Consensus

• Understand momentous changes taking place in the nation since 1989
• Trace the rise and growth of BJP.
• Identify the areas of growing consensus

7

Contemporary World-Politics

40

Politics of India Since Independence

40

Total

80