CUET UG | Political Science
CUET UG Political Science Syllabus 2025 – Overview
The National Testing Agency (NTA) has officially released the Political Science syllabus for the CUET 2025 exam.
Exam Pattern
- The Political Science section consists of 50 questions, out of which you must attempt 40.
- The maximum score for this section is 200 points.
- Negative marking: -1 for every incorrect answer.
- Duration: 45 minutes.
- Question Type: Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQs).
- Mode of Exam: Offline (Pen & Paper).
CUET UG Political Science Syllabus Structure
The syllabus is divided into two parts, covering various topics in Political Science.
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| Syllabus (CUET-UG) (POLITICAL SCIENCE-323) |
| Sr. No | Exam | Program | Link |
| 1 | (CUET-UG) | Political Science | Click Here |
| Indian Politics Since Independence |
| UNITS | Sub Topics |
| The era of One-Party Dominance | First three general elections |
| Major opposition parties | |
| Nature of Congress | |
| Uneven dominance at the state level | |
| Coalitional nature of Congress | |
| Dominance at the national level | |
| Nation-Building and Its Problems | Nehru’s approach to nation-building |
| Organization and re-organization of states | |
| Political conflicts over language | |
| The Kashmir problem & the challenge of ‘refugee’ resettlement | |
| In terms of the Legacy of partition | |
| Politics of Planned Development | Five- Five-year Plans & rise of New Economic Interests |
| Expansion of the state sector | |
| Famine and suspension of five-year plans | |
| Green revolution and its political fallouts | |
| India’s External Relations | Nehru’s foreign policy & India’s nuclear programme |
| Sino-Indian War of 1962 | |
| Indo-Pak war of 1965 and 1971 | |
| Shifting alliances in world politics | |
| Challenge to and Restoration of the Congress System | Political succession after Nehru |
| Congress split and reconstitution& Congress’ victory in 1971 | |
| Non-Congressism and Electoral Upset of 1967 | |
| Politics of ‘Gareebi Hatao’ | |
| Crisis of the Constitutional Order | – Search for ‘committed’ bureaucracy and judiciary & resistance to emergency |
| 1977 elections and the formation of the Janata Party | |
| Navnirman movement in Gujarat& Bihar movement | |
| Emergency: context, constitutional and extra-constitutional dimensions | |
| Rise of Civil Liberties Organizations | |
| Regional Aspirations and Conflicts | Rise of regional parties & The Kashmir situation |
| Challenges and Responses in the Northeast | |
| Punjab crisis and anti-Sikh riots of 1984 | |
| Rise of New Social Movements | Farmers’ movement & Women’s movement & Environment |
| Development-affected people’s movements | |
| Implementation of Mandal Commission report and its aftermath | |
| Democratic Upsurge and Coalition Politics | Participatory upsurge in the 1990s |
| Rise of the JD and the BJP | |
| UF and NDA governments, Elections 2004 and UPA government | |
| The increasing role of regional parties and coalition politics | |
| Recent Issues and Challenges | – Challenge of and responses to globalization & Gujarat riots |
| Dalit politics in the electoral and non-electoral arena | |
| Challenge of communalism & Ayodhya dispute | |
| Rise of OBCs in North Indian politics | |
| New economic policy and its opposition |
| Contemporary World Politics |
| UNITS | Sub Topics |
| Cold War Era in World Politics | The emergence of two power blocs after the Second World War |
| Arenas of the Cold War Challenges to Bipolarity | |
| Quest for new international economic order India and the cold war | |
| Non-Aligned Movement | |
| Disintegration of the ‘Second World’ and the Collapse of Bipolarity | New entities in world politics: Russia, Balkan states, and Central Asian states |
| India’s relations with Russia and other post-communist countries | |
| Introduction of democratic politics and capitalism in post-communist regimes | |
| US Dominance in World Politics | Growth of Unilateralism: Afghanistan’s First Gulf War |
| Dominance and challenge to the US in economic ideology | |
| Response to 9/11 and the Attack on Iraq | |
| India’s renegotiation of its relationship with the USA | |
| Alternative Centers of Economic and Political Power | Rise of China as an economic power in post- Mao era |
| India’s Changing Relations with China | |
| Creation and expansion of the European Union, ASEAN | |
| South Asia in the Post-Cold War Era | Democratization and its reversals in Pakistan and Nepal |
| Impact of economic globalization on the region Conflicts and efforts for peace in South Asia | |
| Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka | |
| India’s relations with its neighbors | |
| International Organizations in a Unipolar World | Restructuring and the future of the UN |
| India’s position in the restructured UN & Rise of new international actors | |
| New international economic organizations, NGOs | |
| Accountability & democracy of new institutions of global governance? | |
| Security in the Contemporary World | Traditional concerns of security and politics of disarmament |
| Issues of human rights and migration | |
| Non-traditional or human security: global poverty, health, and education | |
| Environment and Natural Resources in Global Politics | Environment movement and evolution of global environmental norms |
| Rights of Indigenous People | |
| Conflicts over traditional and common property resources | |
| India’s stand-in global environmental debates | |
| Globalization and Its Critics | Economic, cultural and political manifestations |
| India as an arena of globalization and struggles against it | |
| Debates on the nature of consequences of globalization | |
| Anti-globalization movements |
