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PUNJABI UNIVERSITY, PATIALA
ORDINANCES
AND
OUTLINES OF TESTS,
SYLLABI AND COURSES OF READING
FOR
POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN HUMAN RIGHTS AND DUTIES
2016-17 & 2017-18 Sessions
PUBLICATION BUREAU
PUNJABI UNIVERSITY,
PATIALA.
SYLLABUS
DIPLOMA IN HUMAN RIGHTS AND DUTIES
(2016-17 & 2017-18 Sessions)
The main objectives of the course in Human Rights at the University are: 1) To create an awareness of the environment and acquisition of specialized knowledge in the field.
2) Equipping the students for career in various vocations.
3) Equipping the students for research in government, teaching and other research organizations.
Note: Each paper will carry 75 marks and is of 3 hours duration. 25 marks in each paper is for Internal Assessment,
The Break up of 25 marks for Internal Assessment (Theory Papers) is as below:-
1. Class Attendance 05 Marks
2. Written Assignment etc 10 Marks
3. Two Mid-Semester Tests/ 10 Marks
Internal Examinations*
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Total Marks 25 Marks
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(* Average of both Mid-Semester Tests to be taken.)
THE SCHEME
SEMESTER-I
PAPER-I : FUNDAMENTALS OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND
DUTIES
PAPER-II : THEORY AND PRACTICE OF HUMAN RIGHTS:
THE INDIAN CONTEXT.
PAPER-III : THEORY AND PRACTICE OF HUMAN RIGHTS:
THE INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
SEMESTER-II
PAPER- : PROJECT WORK.
SEMESTER-I
PAPER-I : FUNDAMENTALS OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND
DUTIES
Max Marks : 100 (Theory 75 marks & 25 Marks Internal Assessment)
Pass Marks : 35% Time Allowed: 3 Hours
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER SETTER.
The question paper will consist of three sections: A, B and C. Sections A and B will have Eight questions in total, consisting of four questions from the respective sections of the syllabus. Each long question will carry 12 marks each. Candidates are required to attempt any two questions from each section A and B. Section C will consist of 9 short answer type questions which will cover the entire syllabus uniformly and will carry 27 marks in all. Each short answer type question will carry 3 marks. The candidates are required to answer each short type question in 50 words i.e. in 7-8 lines.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES
Candidates are required to attempt two questions each from the sections A and B of the question paper and the entire section C. The candidates are required to answer each short type question in 50 words i.e. in 7-8 lines. Each short answer type question will carry 3 marks.
SECTION-A
1. Rights and Duties: Meaning and Concept.
2. Classification of Rights and Duties and their interrelationship :
a.) Rights: Moral, Social, Cultural, Economic, Civil and Political.
b) Duties: Towards Self, Family, Community, Society, Nation/State, Humankind and Mother Earth.
3. Linkage with core concepts of Liberty, Equality and Justice.
4. Emergence and Development of Human Rights: A Historical Perspective.
5. Role of United Nations and Human Rights.
6. Human Rights Perspectives: Natural Rights, Legal/Positivist, Liberal and Marxist.
SECTION-B
7. Concept of Development and Historical Debates about Human Rights and Development.
8. UN Millennium Declaration, New Millennium Development Goals and Indicators.
9. Impact of Modernization and Impact of Globalization on Human Rights.
10. Gandhian, Feminist and Neo-Marxist Models of Human Rights.
11. Poverty and Illiteracy.
12. Discrimination (caste, class, gender)
13. Social and Cultural Problems: Patriarchy, Female Foeticide, Domestic Violence against women and children.
14. Police and Human Rights.
SUGGESTED READINGS
1. 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index, 2005Environmental Sustainability Index, New Haven, Conn., Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, 2005.
2. A.P., Vijapur and Suresh Kumar, Perspective on Human Rights, New Delhi, Manak Publications, Ed., 1999.
3. Aaron, Sachs, Eco-Justice: Linking Human Rights and the Environment Washington, D.C., Worldwatch Institute, 1995.
4. Alan Hunt, The Sociological Movement in Law, London, Macmillan Press Ltd., 1978
5. Amir Samin, Unequal Development: An Essay on the Social Formation of Peripheral Capitalism, New York, Monthly Review Press, 1976.
6. Andre Gunder Frank, Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America, New York, Monthly Review Press, 1967.
7. Arjun, Sengupta, “Human Right to Development”, Journal of the National Human Rights Commission, Vol. 2.
8. Arvind Sharma, Minority versus Majority Rights in Subhash Kashyap (ed.) Perspectives on the Constitution, Shimla, IICS, 1997.
9. Betty Freidan, It Changed My Life – Writings on the Women’s Movement, New Delhi, Random House, 1963.
10. Bijai Narain Mani Tripathi, Jurisprudence, Allahabad, Allahabad Law Agency, 1988.
11. Carole Pateman and E. Gross, Faminist Challenges, Social and Political Theory, Boston Northeastern University Press, 1986.
12. Centre for Development and Human Rights (CDHR), Right to Development: A Primer, New Delhi, Sage, 2004.
13. D.G. Tendulkar, Mahatma: Life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, New Delhi, Publications Division, 1951-1963, reprints, Vols. 1-8.
14. David Salby, Human Rights, Cambridge University Press, 1987.
15. De, Beanvoir, Simone (Translated by H.M. Parshley), The Second Sex, Harmionds Worth, Penguin Books, 1949.
16. E.S., Venkataramaiah, Human Rights in the Changing World, New Delhi, International Law Association, ed. 1988.
17. Eddy Asirvatham and K.K. Misra, Political Theory, New Delhi, S. Chand Publishers, 2007.
18. Elisabeth, Reichert, Social Work and Human Rights : A Foundation for Policy and Practice, Jaipur, Rawat Publications, 2003.
19. Farid, Kazmi, Human Rights : Myth and Reality, New Delhi, Intellectual Publishers, 1987.
20. Fernando H. Cardoso and Faletto Enzo, Dependency and Development in Latin America, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1979.
21. Frederic Jameson, Globalisation and Political Strategy, New Left Review, July-August 2004.
22. Harrison David, The Sociology of Modernisation and Development, New Delhi, Heritage Publishers, 1989.
23. Human Rights in India – The updated Amnesty International Report, New Delhi, Vistar, 1993.
24. International Institute for Sustainable Development, Compendium of Sustainable Development Indicators, Winnipeg, IISD, 2004.
25. Iyer, Gopal K., Sustainable Development: Ecological and Soci-cultural Perspective, New Delhi, Vikas Publishing House, 1996.
26. J.C. Johri, Contemporary Political Theory, New Delhi, Sterling Publishers Private Limited, 1987.
27. Jack, Donnelly, The Concept of Human Rights, London, Bodley Head, 1973.
28. Jeremy Waldron, Theories of Rights, New York, Oxford University Press, 1990.
29. K.P. Saxena, Human Rights Fifty Years of India’s Independence, New Delhi, Gyan, 1999.
30. K.P., Saksena, Human Rights: Perspectives and Challenges, New Delhi, Lancers Books, 1994.
31. L.C., Macdonal, Western Political Theory: From its Origins to the Present, New York, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968.
32. Lyuba Zarsky, Human Rights and the Environment, London, Earthscan Publications, ed. 2002.
33. M. P., Dube and Neeta Bora, Perspectives on Human Rights. New Delhi, Anamika Publishers, 2002.
34. M. Redclift and G. Woodgate, The International Handbook of Environmental Sociology, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1997.
35. M. Redclift, Sustainable Development: Exploring the Contradiction, London, Routlege, 1987.
36. M. Savin, US Crusade Against Human Rights, Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1986.
37. M.K. Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Ahmedabad, Navajivan Publishing House, 1990, edition.
38. M.K. Gandhi, Constructive Programme, Ahmedabad, Navajivan Publishing House, May 1991, edition.
39. M.K. Gandhi, From Yeravda Mandir, Ahmedabad, Navjivan Publishing House, December, 1999, edition.
40. M.K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj, Ahmedabad, Navjivan Publishing House, 1998, edition.
41. M.K. Gandhi, Non-violence in Peace and War, Ahmedabad, Navjivan Publishing House, 1948, Vol. 1.
42. M.K. Gandhi, Non-Violent Way to World Peace, Ahmedabad, Navjivan Publishing House, 1959.
43. M.K. Gandhi, Salt Satyagraha, Ahmedabad, Navjivan Publishing House, 1959.
44. M.K. Gandhi, Satyagraha: Gandhi’s Own Words, Ahmedabad, All India Congress Committee, 1935.
45. M.K. Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa, Ahmedabad, Navjivan Publishing House, 1995, edition.
46. M.K. Gandhi, The Message of the Gita, Ahmedabad, Navjivan Publishing House, December 1990.
47. M.M., Rehman, et al., Human Rights and Human Development : Concepts and Contexts, New Delhi, Manak Publications, 2000.
48. M.P., Dube and Neeta Bora, Perspectives of Human Rights, New Delhi, Anamika Publishers, Freeden Michael, Rights, New Delhi, World View Publication, 1998.
49. Mahbubul Hag; Reflections of Human Development (Oxford), 1995.
50. Michael Cowen and Shenton Robert, The Invention of Development in Jonathan Crush (ed.) Power of Development, London and New York, Routledge, 1995.
51. Michael, Freeman, Human Rights : An Interdisciplinary Approach, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2003. H.L., Hart, Law, Libertyand Morality, Oxford, OUP, 1969.
52. Morton E. Winston, The Philosophy of Human Rights, Balmont, Wadworth, 1989.
53. N. Sanajaoba, Human Rights in the New Millennium. New Delhi, Manas Publications, 2000.
54. O.P. Gauba, An Introduction to Political Theory, New Delhi, Macmillan, 2003.
55. P.H. Parekh, Human Rights Year – Book – 2005, New Delhi, Universal Law Publishing Co.
56. P.N., Bhawati, Dimensions of Human Rights. Madurai : Society for Community Organization Trust. Centre for Development and Human Rights (2004). The Right to Development – A Primer. New Delhi, Sage Pub. Cranston, M. (1973) What are Human Rights? London, Bodley Head, 1987.
57. P.S. Jaswal and N. Jaswal, Human Rights and the Law, New Delhi, APH Publishign Corporation, 1996.
58. Pallis, Adamantia, and Peter Shwab, Human Rights Cultural and Ideological Perspective, New York, Praeger Publishers, 1979.
59. Peet Richard (with Elaine Hartwick), Theories of Development, New Delhi, Rawat Publications, 2005.
60. Peter R., Baehr, Human Rights : Universality in Practice, New York, Palgrave, 1999.
61. Praveen, Vadkar, Concepts, Theories and Practice of Human Rights, New Delhi, Rajat Publications, 2000.
62. Praveen, Vadkar, Concepts, Theories and Practice of Human Rights. New Delhi, Rajat Publications, 2000.
63. R. Rai, Human Rights UN Initiatives, New Delhi, Authors Press, 2000.
64. R., Tuck, Natural Rights Theories, Cambridge, Cambridge University, 1979.
65. R.K. Prabhu and U.R. Rao, The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi, Ahmedabad, Navajivan Publishing House, April 1996 edition.
66. Raymond Aron, Main Currents of Sociological Thought.
67. S. Malhotra, et al., Human Rights : Emerging issues, New Delhi, Klaso Books, ed. 2005.
68. Scott, Davidson, Human Rights, Buckingham, Open University Press, 1993.
69. Sen Amartya, Development as Freedom, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999.
70. Stiglitz Joseph, Globalisation and its Critics, New Delhi, Penguin Books, 2003.
71. UNDP Integrating Human Rights with sustainable Human Development, January, 1998.
72. United Nations Division for Sustainable Development, Indicators of Sustainable Development : Guidelines and Methodologies, New York, United Nations Division for Sustainable Development.
73. Upendra Baxi, The Future of Human Rights, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2002.
74. Upendra Baxi, The Future of Human Rights, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2002.
75. V.R. Mehta, Political Science Key Concepts and Theories, New Delhi, NCERT, 2003.
76. Vidynt Bhagwat, Feminist Social Thought : An Introduction to Six Kwey Thinkers, Jaiput, Rawat Publication, 2004.
77. W. Lucien Pye and Verba Sidney, Political Culture and Political Development, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1965.
78. W.W. Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1960.
79. World Bank, World Development Report 1992, New York, Oxford University Press, 1992.
80. World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press.
81. Y. So Alvin, Social Change and Development, Modernization, Dependency and World System Theories, New Delhi, Sage, 1990.
PAPER-II : THEORY AND PRACTICE OF HUMAN RIGHTS:
THE INDIAN CONTEXT.
Max Marks : 100 (Theory 75 marks & 25 Marks Internal Assessment)
Pass Marks : 35% Time Allowed: 3 Hours
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER SETTER.
The question paper will consist of three sections: A, B and C. Sections A and B will have Eight questions in total, consisting of four questions from the respective sections of the syllabus. Each long question will carry 12 marks each. Candidates are required to attempt any two questions from each section A and B. Section C will consist of 9 short answer type questions which will cover the entire syllabus uniformly and will carry 27 marks in all. Each short answer type question will carry 3 marks. The candidates are required to answer each short type question in 50 words i.e. in 7-8 lines.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES
Candidates are required to attempt two questions each from the sections A and B of the question paper and the entire section C. The candidates are required to answer each short type question in 50 words i.e. in 7-8 lines. Each short answer type question will carry 3 marks.
SECTION-A
1. Evolution of Human Rights in India.
2. Fundamental Rights and Duties in the Indian Constitution.
3. Directive Principles of State Policy.
4. Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its Comparison with the Indian Provisions.
5. Protection of Human Rights Act, 1994, Role of National Human Rights Commission, State Human Rights Commission in protecting Human Rights .
6. Role of Judiciary in Protection of Human Rights.
7. Protection of Human Rights through Public Interest Litigation in India.
8. Civil Society, N.G.O.s and Press in safeguarding Human Rights.
SECTION B
9. The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence act, 2005 and judicial response to domestic violence against women and children.
10. Human Rights and Backward Classes.
11. Human Rights of Bonded Labour and Unorganized Labour.
12. Human Rights of the Communities (Minorities and Ethnic Groups)
13. Human Rights of the Aged and Disabled.
14. Human Rights & Prisoners.
SUGGESTED READINGS
1. Shoma Chatterji, Gender and Conflict, UBSPD, New Delhi, 2006.
2. A.S. Narang, Indian Government and Politics, New Delhi, Gitanjali, 1985.
3. Aftab Alam, Human Rights in India, Issues and Challenges, Delhi, Raj, 2000.
4. Anu Saksena, Gender and Human Rights, Status of Women Workers in India, New Delhi, Shipra, 2004.
5. Arun Ray, National Human Rights Commission in India : Formation, Functioning and Future Prospects, New Delhi, Atlantic, 2004.
6. Aswani K. Ray, “Civil Rights Movement and Social Struggle in India” EPW, Vol. XXXI, No. 28, 12 July, 1986.
7. Dev Nathan, Kelkar Govind and Walter Pierre, Globalization and Indigenous Peoples in Asia: Changing the Local Global Interface, New Delhi, Sage, eds. 2004.
8. Ed. By Arun Goyal, Maninder Kaur and Ameer Sultana, Violence Against Women, Issues and Perspective, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, 2006.
9. Ed. By Shabbir Mohammad, Quest for Human Rights, New Delhi, Rawat, 2005.
10. G. Hargopal, Political Economy of Human Rights, Hyderabad, Himalaya, 1999.
11. Granville Austin, Working of a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2000.
12. James Massey, Minorities and Religious Freedom in a Democracy, Delhi, Manohar, 2003.
13. K.G. Kannabiran, The Wages of Impunity: Power, Justice and Human Rights, New Delhi, Orient Longman, 2003.
14. K.P. Saksena, ‘Human Rights : Fifty Years of India’s Independence’, New Delhi, Gyan Publishing House, 1999.
15. K.P. Saxena, Human Rights : Fifty Years of India’s Independence, New Delhi, Gyan, 1999.
16. Kothari, Smitu and Harsh Sethi, Rethinking Human Rights : Challenge for Theory and Action, Delhi, Lokayan, ed., 19991.
17. M. Limaya, ‘Indian National Movement: Its Ideological and Socio-Economic Dimensions’, New Delhi, Radiant Publishers, 1989.
18. M.S.A. Rao, Social Movements in India : Studies in Peasant, Backward Classes, Sectarian, Tribal and Women Movements, New Delhi, Manohar, 2002.