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Bulletin of Information2012-13

Masters in

Economics

English

History

Sociology


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Table of Contents

Te UniversityAUD Campuses ................................................................... ....................................................................... ................................. 5Hostel Facility ...................................................................... ......................................................................... ............................... 5Research @ AUD ................................................................ ....................................................................... ................................. 5Centres @ AUD .................................................................. ......................................................................... ............................... 6ExtraCurricular Activities (ECA) ......................................................................................................... ................................. 6

Te School of Liberal StudiesProgrammes ............................................................... ....................................................................... ............................................ 7Programme Descriptions

MA Economics............................................................ ....................................................................... .................................. 8MA English .........................................................................................................................................................................11MA History.........................................................................................................................................................................18MA Sociology .....................................................................................................................................................................25

Assessment and Evaluation .................................................................... ......................................................................... ....... 31\

General Rules and Procedures

Eligibility .....................................................................................................................................................................................32Medium o Instruction .............................................................................................................................................................32Application Procedure ..............................................................................................................................................................32Selection Procedure

MA Economics ...................................................................................................................................................................33MA English .........................................................................................................................................................................33MA History.........................................................................................................................................................................33MA Sociology .....................................................................................................................................................................33

Seats ..............................................................................................................................................................................................33Reservation o Seats ...................................................................................................................................................................34Fees ................................................................................................................................................................................................35

Fee Waivers and Scholarships ............................................................. ......................................................................... ............ 35Cancellation o Admission ......................................................................................................................................................35University Policy on Reund o Fees ............................................................. ......................................................................... 35Admission to Foreign Students ...................................................................... ......................................................................... 35

Anti-Ragging Regulations.............................................................................................................................................................36

Creating Gender-Sensitive Campus Spaces .............................................................................................................................37

Application Procedure ...................................................................................................................................................................38

Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes......................................................................................................................39

Faculty List.........................................................................................................................................................................................41

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The University

Te Bharat Ratna Dr B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi or AUD was established by the Government

o the National Capital erritory o Delhi through an Act o Legislature in 2007 and was notied in July

2008. Mandated to ocus on research and teaching in the social sciences and humanities and guided by Dr

Ambedkars vision o bridging equality and social justice with excellence, AUD considers it to be its mission to

create sustainable and eective linkages between access to and success in higher education. AUD is committed

to creating an institutional culture characterised by humanism, nonhierarchical and collegial unctioning,

teamwork and nurturance o creativity.

Te University is broadly structured into Schools and Centres, most o which are now unctional. It ocuses

on areas o knowledge and proessional specialisations which are relevant to our context yet are not being

given enough emphasis by other universities in this part o the country.

AUD unctions through its various Schools and Centres and has so ar set up the School o Development

Studies, the School o Human Ecology, the School o Human Studies, the School o Law, Governance and

Citizenship, the School o Business, Public Policy and Social Entrepreneurship, the School o Educational

Studies, the School o Liberal Studies, the School o Culture and Creative Expressions and the School oDesign. Tese Schools will oer doctoral and masters programmes. Te School o Undergraduate Studies is

responsible or the undergraduate programmes in the social sciences, humanities, mathematical sciences and

liberal studies.


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AUD CampusesAUD unctions rom two campuses. One campus is located at Dwarka

and the other at Kashmere Gate. Te Dwarka Campus is located in

the Integrated Institute o echnology, Sector 9, Dwarka, New Delhi.

Te Kashmere Gate Campus is located at Lothian Road, Delhi. Both

campuses are within a 10minute walk rom the metro stations nearest

to them.

Te Schools o Undergraduate Studies; Liberal Studies; HumanStudies; Development Studies; Human Ecology; Culture and Creative

Expressions; and Design are located at the Kashmere Gate Campus. Te

Dwarka Campus houses the Schools o Educational Studies; Business,

Public Policy and Social Entrepreneurship; and Law, Governance and

Citizenship.

AUD hopes to move into its permanent campus at Dheerpur in the next

three to our years.

Hostel Facility

AUD has hostel acilities or men and women at its Dwarka Campus. Tere may also be hostel acilities

available or women at the Kashmere Gate Campus. Students can apply or hostel accommodation once they

have secured admission. Te application orm and brochure or hostel accommodation will be available at the

University Oces and on the AUD website at the time o admission.

Research @ AUD

At AUD, MPhil and PhD degrees are granted at all the schools o the University, other than the School o

Undergraduate Studies. Admissions to the MPhil programmes occur once a year in JulyAugust. Admissions to

the PhD programmes generally happen twice a year, in JulyAugust and JanuaryFebruary. Te number o seats

available in each school or research may vary year to year. Cuttingedge, unconventional and interdisciplinary

research in new and established elds is welcome and encouraged at AUD.


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Centres @ AUDTe University is in the process o setting up a number o Centres to acilitate research and dissemination

o knowledge in lesser known or neglected areas. As o now, the Centre or Early Childhood Education

and Development (or proessional and multidisciplinary academic support in this area), the Centre or

Community Knowledge (to document, study and disseminate the praxis o community knowledge) and the

Centre or Social Science Research Methods (to design and oer innovative programmes in social science

research methods or students and aculty) are unctional. Tere are plans to set up a Centre or Leadership

and Change, a Centre or Equality and Social Justice, a Centre or Engaged Spiritualities and Peace Building, a

Centre or the Social Applications o Mathematics and a Centre or Publishing. A NorthEast Forum has alsobeen established which is successully working towards collecting and digitally archiving material and doing

research on the Northeastern region o India.

Extra-Curricular Activities (ECA)

AUD has also established a series o cultural societies to

galvanise the intellectual and extracurricular lie o students

in the campus. Tere is a thriving Teatre Society, Ecoclub,Sports Committee, Debating Society and Literary Society.

Te Economics Society and the Society or Visual Culture

have also been activated. Tere are regular talks, lectures,

screenings and perormances in the campus and students

are encouraged to participate in and organise events around

them.


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School of Liberal Studies

Te School o Liberal Studies in the academic session 20122013, is oering MA Programmes in History,

Economics, English and Sociology. Te existing and the planned activities o the School o Liberal Studies are

geared towards the longterm objectives o preparing a new generation o young social scientists, who will be

both cognitively and methodologically trained and socially sensitive. India since the last two or three decades

has been going through an unprecedented social transormation. Tis Indian experience is in great need o

being codied and its intricacies have to be unraveled. We need a large number o trained social scientists to

make sense o this transormation and make it intelligible.

Te School represents an interdisciplinary vision that would nonetheless be rooted in specic disciplines. Te

School envisions the practice o social sciences in a manner in which specic disciplines constitute pillars that

support the edice o interdisciplinarity. Te School plans to train researchers who would be interdisciplinary

in their orientation but otherwise rooted and trained in specic disciplines.

Te School o Liberal Studies hopes to take social sciences out o the intellectual ivory towers o excellence

and make it socially relevant and accountable. Social Scientists have to be oriented towards the larger social

world within which they operate and to carry together both the major values o intellectual reedom andsocial accountability. Te University has a mandate or maintaining an interace with civil society, and the

School o Liberal Studies views itsel as an active and major partner in this endeavour.

Programmes

Te School o Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi announces admissions or 201213 to the ollowing

MA Programmes:

Programmes Duration Credits SeatsMA Economics 2 Years 64 42

MA English 2 Years 64 42

MA History 2 Years 64 42

MA Sociology 2 Years 64 42


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Programme DescriptionsMA Economics

Duration: 2 Years (4 Semesters) otal Credits: 64

Medium of Instruction: English Number of Seats: 42

Eligibility: Bachelors degree with 45% marks (or an equivalent grade) rom a recognised University. Tere

will be a relaxation o 5% or candidates belonging to SC, S and PD categories.

Reservation of seats: In accordance with the Government o NC o Delhi rules.

Te Masters Programme in Economics will attempt to provide students with a rigorous and indepth

advanced training in economic analysis, with a particular emphasis on equipping them with the ability to

comprehend and think about contemporary economic issues including the challenges conronting developing

countries like India. It will equip students or careers in government agencies, the corporate and nancial

sectors, development organisations, the media, and also in academia (including urther studies).

Te programme will draw on dierent theoretical perspectives and traditions within the discipline, bring in

perspectives rom outside the discipline on contemporary social phenomenon, and use creative pedagogical

approaches to oer a wellrounded training that would enable students to achieve a variety o objectives

simultaneously: in keeping with the Universitys vision, develop a sociopolitical and historical perspective

on the economy and the discipline which analyses it; master the quantitative techniques which are used

extensively in economic analysis; understand and learn to analyse contemporary economic issues at the global

and national levels; and acquire skills or absorbing and communicating economic ideas on the social.

Te rst two semesters will ocus on the core courses - which provide a mix o economic theory, quantitative

techniques, economic history, and analysis o concrete development problems with a component ocused

specically on India. o lay the disciplinary oundation o the MA, core discipline based courses in the rst

semester will be ollowed in the second semester by a broadening towards a mix o disciplinary grounding and

interdisciplinary components o economics. In the third and the ourth semesters, the mix o core and elective

courses will build on these oundations to complement interdisciplinary perspectives and enable students to

develop an element o specialisation in their preerred areas.


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Semester 1 Semester 2 Semester 3 Semester 4

Core 1. Microeconomics I (4)

2. Macroeconomics I (4)

3. Introduction to

Research Methods and

Econometrics (4)

4. International rade

and Capital Flows (4)

5. Microeconomics II

(4)

6. Macroeconomics

II (4)

7. Capitalism,

Colonialism and

Development (4)

8. Teories o Valueand Distribution (4)

9. Development

Economics (4)

13. Indian

Economy (4)

Elective 10. Elective 1 (4)

11. Elective 2 (4)

12. Elective 3 (4)

14. Electiv e 4 (4)

15. Elective 5 (4)

16. Elective 6 (4)

Support

WorkshopQuantitative echniques and Academic Skills

Overview

Macroeconomics I and II will cover the evolution o the main body o macroeconomic theories both

with reerence to the setting towards which they are oriented - o a developed capitalist economy - and

its changing context with a ocus on macroeconomics o developing countries like India along with and in

conjunction with the macroeconomics o the global economy.

Microeconomics I and II would cover theories o utility, production and cost, and strategies o rms

under perect and imperect competition along with general equilibrium models and social welare.

Introduction to Research Methods and Econometrics aims to train students in application o statistical

methods or data analysis. It will ocus on empirical investigation o relationships drawing on dierent

rameworks and methods. Te course will equip students with quantitative skills or analysis o both

primary and secondary data with an understanding o the concepts and principles underlying the methods,

and how to apply them to real world data. Te course will also equip students with necessary computer

skills.

International rade and Capital Flows aims to examine the signicant contemporary eatures o

international economic relations placed within a broader historical and theoretical context by ocussingon two pillars o international economic relations trade and nance. It shall cover dierent theories


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o international trade, balance o payments and capitalows, and the political economy o external sector

policies. It will discuss dierent historical perspectives

and economic theories on trade, nance and economic

development that have shaped opinion, policy and

outcomes in the contemporary world.

Teories of Value and Distribution shall look at the

divide between Classical and Neoclassical theories o

value and distribution. Tese schools and the theoriesthat make them up will be discussed with reerence to

the contexts in which they emerged and developed,

the dierences in their premises and the undamental questions they are designed to answer, and the

critiques advanced o them.

Development Economics shall discuss the contemporary challenges acing developing countries in the

age o globalisation through a comprehensive discussion o the thinking on and experience o Tird World

development since the midtwentieth century, and the continuities and changes in their situations.

Capitalism, Colonialism and Development is a core economic history component o the programme

and shall explore the political economy o development and underdevelopment in relation to the role o

colonialism in the history o capitalism. A part o the course will be devoted to the study o British and

Indian economic histories during the period o colonialism in a unied ramework.

Indian Economyshall discuss the historical evolution and contemporary situation o a variety o issues

arising in the process o the attempted transormation o Indias lowincome agriculturedominated

economy afer independence. Problems o industrial development and the role o services, the agrarian

situation, employment, poverty and inequality, etc. shall be discussed with reerence to the changingeconomic policy context.

Elective courses: Tese would be oered rom amongst a large set o possible courses which can be

broadly classied into three groups:

1. Specialisation within the discipline o Economics

2. Specialisation across more than one discipline

3. Courses which would be intersecting the boundaries o 1 and 2.

Many o these courses would be o interest and accessible to students in other MA programmes at


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AUD. Tese courses would be spread across many areas advanced quantitative techniques; advancedeconomic theory and general equilibrium analysis; monetary economics, public nance; economics o

the nancial sector; industrial organisation; agricultural economics, growth and dynamics; development

and the Indian economy; economic history, history o economic thought and political economy; energy,

natural resources and environmental economics; labour economics; economics o gender, economics o

institutions, economics o marginalisation and discrimination, research methods, etc. Te elective courses

would also include courses oered within the School o Liberal Studies (including those that may be oered

by programmes other than Economics, like Mathematics, History, Sociology, Psychology, Literature, etc.)

as well as courses oered by or in collaboration with other schools such as the School o Development

Studies or the School o Human Ecology. Te details o the Elective Courses will be nalised shortly.

Support Modules in Quantitative Analysis and Research Skills Development: Tese would be non

credit based modules delivered through workshops over the course o the MA programme to equip

students with academic skills or developing quantitative analytical capability, writing skills and eective

use o library and computing resources.

For queries contact Dr Arindam Banerjee at [email protected]

MA English

Duration: 2 years (4 semesters) otal Credits: 64


Eligibility: Bachelors degree with 45% marks (or an equivalent grade) rom a recognised University.

Relaxation o 5% marks or candidates belonging to SC, S and PD categories.

Reservation of Seats: In accordance with the Government o NC o Delhi rules.

Te Masters Programme in English proposes to dismantle the hierarchy between British Literature and

other literatures in English, including literatures in translation. It seeks to bring into ocus the signicance

o literatures belonging to lesser known languages and regions. Strengthening the overall vision o Ambedkar

University, this programme hopes to orient students towards engaged and reective scholarship. A concern

with social and literary margins will consistently guide the programmes overall vision, philosophy and

content. It is hoped that the programmes ethical concern with linking education to the lives and struggles

o individuals and communities will enable the students to orm a holistic understanding o literature. It will

also help them to develop deeper psychic, social and creative sensibilities. It is urther envisaged that through


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this programme the students will develop a critical sensibility towards the larger politics o culture, societyand state so that they actively and artistically interrogate and intervene within the givens o the hegemonic

political and cultural order.

Te programme integrates interdisciplinary paradigms to acilitate a greater amalgamation between various

literatures, theory and practice on the one hand, and between music, dance, theatre, cinema, literature and

visual arts, on the other. Students will be oered a wide range o interdisciplinary courses which will help them

situate literature in the context o other disciplines.

In order to enable critical thinking, intervention and praxis, the programme will encourage communityoriented research work and an engagement with lesser known literatures and cultures existing in India

and elsewhere. Tis programme, through its research projects, hopes to document, as much as it can, the

undocumented literary wealth o India. Besides creating a resource or Indian literature, this would help the

students in developing a deep insight into Indian reality.

Course Design and Evaluation

Te Masters programme in English will comprise 16 courses o 4 credits each, amounting to a total o

64 credits. Each course will be o 16 weeks duration.

In keeping with AUDs emphasis on interdisciplinary studies, students will be encouraged to opt or up to our

optional courses rom any other programme within the School o Liberal Studies or rom any other School o

the University. Te programme hopes to integrate an internship component to guide the students to develop

skills according to their aptitude. By the end o the programme, it will be mandatory or all students to write

a dissertation.

Assessment will include term papers, class presentations, class discussions, class participation, workshops,

group work, tests and assignments. Students will be provided with a detailed reading list or each course.Students are expected to attend and participate in all class discussions.

Areas o Study

Te general Areas o Study designed by the English Faculty are based on the assumption that no literary canon

or tradition can be xed once and or all. It has to be rediscovered and recreated by each new generation o

students, readers and critics in response to their own historical or cultural location. Indeed, even the denition

o text or literature itsel has to be debated continuously. A literary and textual culture is, thereore, part o an

ongoing critical dialogue in a society about those civilisational, social, political and philosophical concerns


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which matter at a particular historical juncture. It is in this belie that the wide range o Areas o Study inthis programme invite students and teachers to become participants in an adventure o ideas; questors who

understand that written texts, theatrical presentations, oral songs, olklores, paintings, lms and music exist

beside each other and are equally important components in a continuous tradition o thinking and knowledge

making.

Te Areas o Study, indicating an openeld o exploration, are urther marked bysome o the possible Courses

o Study which the Faculty o English shall oer rom time to time. Te Courses o Study shall change rom

semester to semester and will depend upon the availability o aculty members, the current scholarly interests

o the aculty and the changing debates around questions o literary unction, critical tasks, the Sel and itsexperiences in the surrounding world, discourses on religions and their role, peace and reconciliation in a

world threatened by violence or war, crime and justice, caste and gender, notions o beauty and aesthetic

pleasure, childhood and identity, genres and myths, oral narratives and written cultures, etc. Te Areas and

Courses o study may be reormulated by the instructor concerned and announced at the beginning o each

academic year. Tough the current Areas o Study are listed yet the categories are not exclusive and there may

be overlaps as well as interaces across categories. Te Areas o Study or the current English programme are

as ollows:

Literatures o North America and the British Isles

Courses in this category will deal with literatures rom Britain, Scotland, Ireland and North America written

in all possible genres over the ages. While some o these courses would explore works o specic writers and

their inuence on the times in which they lived and wrote, some other courses will approach specic ages and

examine their impact on the writers and their work. Yet another category o courses would analyse the literary

and historical ages and authors through the lens o themes that unite varied and yet interrelated literary,

journalistic, artistic and cinematic productions. Tere may also be some survey courses that provide an overview

o the representative literary works o a region over several centuries to understand the changes that literarystyles go through with changing times. Te ollowing courses may be included in this category: Shakespeare

and his Contemporaries, Seventeenth Century British Poetry, Renaissance in America, Restoration Comedy,

Jacobean ragedy, Te Gothic Novel, Te Age o Enlightenment, Te Modern Novel, wentieth Century

British Poetry and Drama, Victorian Literature, Blake and the Romantics, Nineteenth Century American

Literature, wentieth Century American Drama and Poetry, AricanAmerican Literature.


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Forms in Literature

Varied orms o literature that developed through the ages also reect on the specic social and political

perspective o a particular period. Courses under this broad area would thus look into the many associations,

responses, specicities, challenges, experimentation and evolution with regard to a particular literary orm.

Te courses will examine literary and oral orms such as Epic, Novel, Lyric, Drama, Comedy, ragedy, Satire,

Poetry, Realism and Magic Realism, Romance, Folklore. Some o the courses under this category will be

related to the Indian Novel, Shakespeares ragedies, Indigenous Narrative raditions and Cultures, Historical

Fiction, Science Fiction, Autobiography, etc.

Literature and the Other Arts

Te convergences, parallels and overlaps between literature and cinema, visual and perorming arts will

be explored through various courses in this category. Tese courses will study the written word in relation

to other creative orms. Courses in this category may include Understanding Cinema, Fiction into Film,

Problems o Identity in Modern European Cinema and Literature, Drama: ext and Perormance, Literature

and Architecture, Literature and the Visual Arts, Science Fiction and Cinema, Literature and Music, Cinema

as Visual History.

Temes in Literature

Te courses under this category will analyse ways in which literature has been shaped and in return shapes

political, psychoanalytical, sexual, social and cultural movements and ideas; how a correspondence between

literature and other orms o meaningmaking enables literature to become a discourse, a willing and productive

participant in the history o ideas. Te courses would concern literatures syncretic and complex engagement

with marginality, dissent, war and resistance, race, gender, sexuality, class and caste imperatives, adventures and

exiles, ecology and the environment, memory and the psyche, modernity and postcoloniality, etc. Te courses

oered under this category may be Literature o the Marginalised, Slave Narratives, Literature o Dissent,Womens Writings, History and Literature, Debates around Caste in India, Literature and the Human Psyche,

Literatures o Resistance, Adventure Literature, Environment and Literature, Modernity and its Discontents,

Literature o Conict and Reconciliation, Literature and the Holocaust, Te (Post)Colonial City, Literature

and the Political, Exile and Literature, Literatures o Childhood, Interrogating Morality in Literature.

Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures

Tis category will ocus on literatures emerging rom colonial and postcolonial contexts either in English or

in translation. Te courses will address themes like empire, language, hybridity and mimicry, indigeneity,


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race, gender, caste, ethnicity, subalternity, cultural identity and diaspora, globalisation, representation andresistance. exts or study may be drawn rom literatures written in Latin America, the Caribbean Islands,

Australia and New Zealand, Arica and Asia.

World Literature in ranslation

Tis category will study literature in translation rom the dawn o the European and nonEuropean intellectual

traditions to the many complex and discursive practices in literature and the arts in the contemporary

period. Courses in this category will centre around translations o signicant literary texts rom across the

globe. Students may study the canonical greats o Western European Literature like Homer, Virgil, DanteCervantes and Goethe or may study ancient Indian literature in translation as well as literature rom across

various continents. Courses under this category may include European Modernist Poetry, Arican Literature,

Nineteenth and wentieth Century Fiction across Continents, Literature o the Americas, Literature and the

Holocaust, Contemporary World Poetry, Literatures o the Indian Subcontinent, the European Novel in the

Nineteenth and wentieth Century, Australian Aborigine Literature, World Drama, Modern South Asian

Literature, Modern South East Asian Literature.

Literary and Cultural Teory

Tis category is designed with the understanding that theory helps in questioning easy assumptions and

problematises accepted categories. Tis category o courses comprising literary, cultural and aesthetic theories

also assumes that theory enriches and deepens our understanding o the world in which we live. It aims to

introduce students to various strategies o reading, comprehending and engaging with literary and cultural

texts. Courses in this category may include: Literary Criticism, Contemporary Literary and Cultural theory,

Teories o ranslation, Teories rom the Global South, Teories o Marginalities and Culture, Teories o

Popular and Counter Culture.

English Language Education

A comprehensive understanding o English Language Education will equip students with skills in English

language teaching, technical writing, content writing, instructional designing and sof skills training. Tese

components will make students aware o research in language teaching and get a handson experience in using

this knowledge in the classroom. It will also allow students to understand the dierences between teaching

literature and language. Courses in English Language Education (ELE) will ocus on the ollowing areas:

Introduction to ELE, Approaches and Teories o Language Learning, English as a Second Language, Second

Language Acquisition, Bi/Multilingualism, English or Specic Purposes, Pedagogic Practices, Developments


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in Language eaching, Material Development, Educational echnology, Classroom based Assessment andmethods o Evaluation.

Each student is required to complete 4 courses per semester. Te ollowing courses will be oered in the

Monsoon Semester or both the present and incoming MA English students.

Teories o Marginality and Culture

With the gradual shif within literary theory rom the text to the subject and meaning to representation, there

has also been a shif o ocus rom the EuroAmerican to the Tird World. With the marginalised peoplevoicing their lived realities, the orientation o literary theory has undergone a seismic change. Tis course

recognises this signicant shif and will help the students in comprehending the dynamics o oppression,

negligence and even erasure in the world they inhabit. It will thereore trace the trajectory o literary theory

rom the rst world to the third world (Asia, Arica, Latin America and the third worlds within the rst

world) visvis the divisive categories o race, caste, class, gender and disability, and study the theories o

subalternity. It will also investigate the role o the State in propagating, reinorcing and in some cases, even

interrogating representation o the marginalised. Te theories that may be included in this paper are Feminism,

Gender and Queer theory, Postcolonial Teory, Disability Studies and theories related to Deep Ecology.

Contemporary Indian English Fiction

Indian English ction has undeniably attained a grand stature among the literatures o the world. Te post

Salman Rushdie era has brought in so much o commercial and critical success to Indian English ction

that it has spurred great ambition and prolic literary activities, with many Indians aspiring to write English

ction! Outside India, Indian English ction is taken as representative writings rom India, though at home

the Indianness o Indian English ction is almost always questioned. A course in contemporary Indian

English ction will briey review the history o Indian English ction tracing it rom its colonial origins to

the postcolonial times to look at the latest trends, and how they paint the larger picture o India. Temes o

nation, culture, politics, identity and gender will be taken up or indepth analysis and discussions through

representative texts. Te aim will also be to understand and assess the crosscultural impact o these writings.

Drama: ext and Perormance

Tis course looks at drama through literary texts and their depiction in perormance. Both the literary and the

perormance texts are open to the politics o interpretation. Te public rendition o a play makes the dramatist,

the actor, the director, the dramaturge and the spectator open to theorisation. Te course will look at classical,Western as well as Indian traditions in drama and perormance, move on to the olk tradition, and then span


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across various dramatic styles and movements down theages and across cultures. Te course will involve a study

o the strategies, techniques and theories o writing and

perormance with emphasis on the elements o music,

dance, language and the body in perormance. Other

aspects o the dramatic in perormance such as ritual,

spectacle, carnival, and magic will also be discussed

within a cultural ramework. Te course will thus try

to juxtapose the literary with the visual, the word with

the act.

Postcolonial Teory and Practice

Tis course takes note o the powerul postcolonial turn in literary studies and aims at studying the new

and emerging literatures and theory that have emanated rom the once colonised cultures across the world.

Te course aims to introduce students to some o the major issues and themes o postcolonial theory and

also makes them examine various literary and cultural texts using these critical concepts. A range o literary,

cultural and theoretical texts rom the postcolonial regions will be included in addition to canonical English

texts which are to be studied under the lens o postcolonial theory.

Shakespeares Many Adaptations

Much o the appeal o Shakespeares seemingly inexhaustible power as a playwright lies in some o the most

astonishing adaptations o his plays. Te course will discuss how his plays have travelled across culture,

language and medium, territories, cities and, most importantly, languages and how the inherent potency o

a Shakespeare play is unlocked in cultures and languages so removed rom the original. Tis course will look

into our o the most widely read plays written by Shakespeare adapted or the screen and stage. Te rstmodule will look atMacbeth, along with its adaptations by Orson Welles, Akira Kurasawa, Roman Polanski

and Vishal Bhardwaj. Module two will take up Othello and its adaptations by Orson Welles, George Cukor,

Oliver Parker and Jayaraaj. Module three will study King Learwith notable adaptations by JeanLuc Godard

and Akira Kurasawa while Module our will discuss the various stage adaptations o Te empest rom the

seventeenth century to the present times. It will also discuss in detail John Fowles Te Collector, and Iris

Murdochs Te Sea, Te Sea as novels that oer a postcolonial reading o the play.


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Adventure Literature

Tis course seeks to explore the nexus between colonial enterprise, rise o the middle class readership and the

corresponding clamour or narratives about the unknown and the unheard o . A trend that was set in 1719

with the publication oRobinson Crusoe gave rise to newer expectations among readers tied down to their home

turs, rom writings that showed them a slice o the exotic elsewhere which seemed real due to the sprinkling

o actual and scientic descriptions inuenced by the new knowledge created in the Age o Reason. By the

midnineteenth century, most o the adventure narratives were exploring newer ways o touching increasingly

antastic territories with uncanny similarities to real lie colonialist endeavours. In this context, the course will

critically analyse adventure writings, chiey o the nineteenth century, by ocusing on novels beginning with

Robinson Crusoe (1719) and meandering through some representative nineteenth century EuroAmerican

adventure narratives. Te reading list may include writings o Jules Verne, Mark wain, Johann David Wyss,

R.M. Ballantyne, H. Rider Haggard, John Hanning Speke, Henry M. Stanley and R.L. Stevenson along with

a host o secondary readings linking dierent ideological pegs that hold the course together.

Seminars/Workshops

Seminars and Workshops will be conducted throughout the programme.

Research Project

Each student will take up a research project at the end o the second semester. Tis research project will lead

to a dissertation which will be submitted at the end o the ourth semester.

For queries contact Dr Diamond Oberoi Vahali at [email protected]

MA History



Eligibility: Bachelors degree with 45% marks (or an equivalent grade) rom a recognised University.

Relaxation o 5% marks or candidates belonging to SC/S and PD categories.


Te Masters Programme in Historyseeks to impart knowledge o historical phenomena and processes as

well as to transmit skills o historical analysis and encourage historical imagination. Students are expected


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to learn the historians craf, to acquire competence in independently ormulating ideas and judgments onthe basis o historical data and through logical procedures o enquiry. Te programme also teaches students

to think about historical issues in an interdisciplinary manner and seeks to encourage a spirit o critical

thinking about contemporary social questions. Te tools o historical scholarship combined with a spirit o

critical engagement shall serve programme graduates well in such careers as academics, research, journalism,

publishing, educational administration, museology, archival management, heritage management, government

service, and many others.

Programme Structure (Credits in Parenthesis)

Core Core Elective Elective Elective

Semester 1 MHC01: Te

State in Indian

History (4)

MHC04:

Problems o

Historical

Knowledge (4)

Elective (4) Elective (4)

Semester 2 MHC02: Making

o the Modern

World (4)

Elective (4) Elective (4) Elective (4)

Semester 3 MHC03: Power,Culture and

Marginality in

India (4)

Elective (4) Elective (4) Elective (4)

Semester 4 Elective (4) Research Paper (6) Research Paper (6)

Te programme requires students to complete courses amounting to at least 64 credits over our semesters.

Most courses are 4credit courses; each o these entails nominally 56 to 64 hours o classroom teaching per

semester. All courses are the length o a semester, 14 to 16 weeks. A ew 2 or 6credit courses may also be

oered.

16 credits are devoted to 4 core courses, which are compulsory and common or all students. Te remaining

courses are elective in nature. MA History students may complete between 4 and 8 credits o courses oered

through other MA programmes o the University, whether in the School o Liberal Studies or in other Schools

o the University.

Studentsmustcompleteatleast28creditsofelectivecoursesinonemajorspecialisationarea.

Studentsmustcompleteatleast12creditsofelectivecoursesinanotherminorspecialisationarea.


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Tere are presently two specialisation areas, Te History of South Asia and Comparative History.Students must identiy, by the commencement o the third programme semester, one o these areas as their major

specialisation area and the other as their minor specialisation area. Tey may opt or courses in both o these

areas until declaring their major and minor areas, and they may enrol in courses in any specialisation area in

any programme semester.

Te South Asian History specialisation area is unied with respect to its geographical dimension.Te Comparative

History specialisation area is not dened by any particular geographical area, period or set o historical issues.

Te courses in this area are thematic and represent a variety o national, regional, global and generic histories

and historical methods. Tey are designed to acquaint students with the eclectic nature o historical researchwhile encouraging them to reect upon connections between Indian history and other elds o history.

Te credit requirements o the programme are given below. A students normal credit load in each semester is

16 credits. However, given options available, student may enrol or additional courses in one or more semesters

or a total o 66 or 68 programme credits.

CompulsorycommonCorecourses (16credits)

ElectiveMajorspecialisationareacourses (28-36credits)

ElectiveMinorspecialisationareacourses (12-24credits)

ElectiveCoursesfromotherareasofstudy (4or8credits)

1. In the case o Major specialisation area coursesat least 24 o these credits must be earned through regularly

taught courses.

2. In the case o Minor specialisation area coursesat least 8 o these credits must be earned through regularly

taught courses.

Course Descriptions

Core Courses

Te ollowing our core courses are oered and students must (normally) complete them in the sequence in

which they are oered.

MHC01: Te State in Indian History

Tis course transits the ancient, medieval, and modern periods o Indian history concentrating on thecrucial political institution called the State. It examines the processes through which a variety o state systems


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have evolved in India down to the present. Te dierent types o state ormations that emerged in the Indiansubcontinent are situated in the historical circumstances at various points o time in Indias past. Te structures

and modes o exercise o power are related to changes in the economic, social and cultural spheres located in

the changing contexts o time and space.

Te evolution o the State in India is located in the Vedic times (c.1000 BCE) in the period o transition rom

pastoralism to agriculture leading to trade and urbanisation. Te emergence o a more complex society was

accompanied by structures and ideologies o power and authority that were evident in the early kingdoms,

particularly the Mauryan state. Tese are examined through the religious literature o the times and texts

like Kautilyas Arthashastra. Te medieval polities that have been understood through concepts like OrientalDespotism, Feudalism or the Segmentary state in Southern India are subjected to critical enquiry in this

course.

Te rise o the Sultanate states, the emergence o the Mughal Empire ollowed by its disintegration are

sought to be understood with reerence to structures and representations o kingship in the Indian context.

Te colonial state that superseded eighteenth century regimes brought on new orms o centralisation and

ideologies o imperial rule. Te anticolonial struggles driven by varied notions o reedom and nationalism led

to independence and the establishment o the nation states o India and Pakistan. A complex amalgamation o

the persistence o longterm symbols o kingship and authority along with undamental changes in modes ogovernance, exercise o power and hegemony have characterised the postcolonial state in India.

MHC 02: Te Making o the Modern World

Tis course surveys the major historical processes, events and actors who shaped and were shaped in the course

o the ormation o what we understand today as the modern world. As the title suggests there are three central

concerns that will run through this course: the word making suggests its methodological concerns (Does

writing world or global history make sense? I so, how do we go about such a task? Is it possible to write world

history rom a local perspective?); modern suggests its conceptual concerns (reason and rationality, liberalism,democracy, nation and nationalism, capitalism, technology and science, which all together constitute what we

understand as constitutive o the modern) and world highlights its representational or spatial dimension.

Depending on how we congure this world, does it make more sense to speak in terms o modernities and

modern worlds as opposed to the modern world? Let it suce or now to say that the period covered will

be rom the Haitian Revolution to the Scramble or Arica (roughly 1790 to 1912) or what Eric Hobsbawm

called the long nineteenth century.

Our rst aim will be to consider how the movement o people in our period acilitated an exchange o ideas

and things that in turn linked places and nature to create what has come to be known as the modern world.


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Sanjay Subrahmanyams emphasis on writing connected histories will guide us through our second aim whichis to connect aspects o this story that remain underrepresented, such as those that bookend our period o

study. And nally, since the making o the modern world was not a smooth process, the course will consider

historical challenges to its making.

In addition to being about the making o the modern world, this course is also aimed at developing students

awareness o the tools and skills used in the practice o the historians craf. owards this end every attempt will

be made to enable the student to situate the making o the modern world both theoretically and historically.

Students should end the term interested in historical themes and ideas other than the making o the modern

world. Central to any history course is the place and constitution o the archive. Close attention will be paidto the materials used by scholars to develop their arguments in the texts to be read and will thereore (a) act as

an introduction to the wide and always increasing array o archival materials available to study any given topic

and (b) emphasise the act that a historians task is to rst and oremost dene and justiy her or his archive.

Our hope is that this course would motivate the students to urther their interest in history. In addition,

students will be encouraged to develop their academic reading and writing skills as well as their capacity or

critical engagement regardless o the subject.

MHC03: Power, Culture and Marginality in India

Tis course amiliarises students with the key concepts o power, culture and marginality, showing how they

relate to major historical processes and structures in India. Te course explores power not only as exercised

through political authority structures but as dispersed through social practices and culture; it examines

dynamics o marginality, inequality and hierarchy, showing how these are expressed historically in relation to

caste, gender, class and ethnicity. Although the course ocuses on India, it takes a comparative approach in

exploring experiences across societies and in eaturing examples and cases relevant to parts o the world other

than India.

Tis course would be taught through a number o modules that deal with varied maniestations o marginality

and the emergence o counter cultures, drawing upon sources like literature, music, lms, olk perormances. It

would begin by highlighting the complex process o acculturation and assimilation in geographical peripheries

that leads to determining power equation between the dominant and the other. Te intent is to enable

students to develop critical perspectives on the ways in which cultural dierentiation and ethnic ormulations

have been used to maintain power and justiy inequalities and injustices. Tis course urther aims to question

the paradigm o Othering and dissect the politics o cultural imperialism. Te themes chosen or this course

involve minorities religious, linguistic, sexual, and physically disadvantaged; and deprivation and exclusion

arising out o caste, class, access, ownership and location based hierarchies. Te course would also explore howthe process o marginalisation has been simultaneously overturned by appropriation o symbols, cult, texts


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and memories to demonstrate how the margin was once the centre. In doing so, the course would examine themanner in which community identities emerge, based on exclusionary principles, and yet how the notions o

an interlinked past remain apparent in the manner in which communities reer to sel and the other.

MHC 04: Problems o Historical Knowledge

Tis course ocuses on questions and problems involved in historical research and writing, and reviews various

historiographical traditions and ormulations o historical method, giving special attention to the development

o historical science during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Te course amiliarises students with

seminal ideas o modern philosophy that have inuenced the development o the social sciences in generaland history in particular. While the rst modules o this course explore theory and philosophy o history,

subsequent modules deal with particular examples o the making o historical knowledge in Indian history

and other areas and illustrate how understanding o historical reality has changed or been challenged by

new discoveries or approaches.

Elective Courses

Elective courses shall be oered in such quantity and variety that students would be able to choose at least

two courses in their major specialisation area and one or two courses in their minor area in each semester o

the programme. Some courses shall be oered more requently than others. Courses will be added to the lists

below according to the availability and interests o aculty (including visiting and guest aculty) and in response

to the expressed needs o the students. Although there is a high probability o most o these courses being

oered, the lists are suggestive rather than denitive. Many courses not listed here are being contemplated.

Note that these lists do not indicate which courses will be oered in each semester or in what order. Tis inormation

shall be made available beore the commencement o each semester.

Te South Asian Historyspecialisation area presently consists o the ollowing courses:

eIndianNationalistMovement

CommunalismandPartitioninSouthAsia

IndiasEconomyandColonialRule1750-1950

EnvironmentalHistoryofIndia

UrbanisationinIndia

AspectsofRuralSocietyinWesternIndia

OralEpicsinIndia:ExploringHistoryandIdentity

eMakingofModernPunjab


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HistoryofScienceandTechnologyinModernIndia Devotion,DiversityandDissentinMedievalIndia

HistoryofEducationinIndia

IndiasEngagementwithModernityduringtheNineteenthandTwentiethCenturies

LiteratureandSocietyinModernIndia

SocialMovementsinIndia

Te Comparative Historyspecialisation area presently consists o the ollowing courses:

GlobalEnvironmentalHistory:AnIntroduction

IndianOcean

CitiesinHistory

AboriginalHistories

HistoryofModernJapan

ComparativeStudyofLabourRelationsandWellBeing

CapitalismandRaceinSouthernAfrica1850-2000

MigrationsandDiasporasinHistory FromColonialismtoNationalIndependenceintheCaribbean

UnstableEmpires:DimensionsofBritishImperialExperiences1600-1970

IndiaandChinaintheTwentiethCentury

NationsandNationalisms

AspectsofGenderinHistory

IndustrialSocietyinHistoricalContext

Courses om other Areas o Study

Ambedkar University, Delhi is committed to interdisciplinary learning. Its aculty recognises the intellectual

enrichment that students experience when they are exposed to more than one knowledge area. No intellectual

discipline is isolated and selsucient and stasis occurs when a discipline attempts to close itsel o rom

others. History students encounter ideas, concepts and theories that have either been generated rom within

other knowledge areas or have interdisciplinary implications and applications. MA History students are

encouraged to deepen their amiliarity with other elds o knowledge by completing 4-8 credits o courses fom other

areas o study. Afer consultation with a aculty advisor, MA History students may enrol in courses in language

and literature, gender studies, economics, and environmental studies, rom among other programmes.


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Research

During the third and ourth programme semesters, all MA History students are required to complete two

major research assignments on topics o their choice, or which they shall be awarded six (6) credits each.

Tese courses are designed to engage students in extensive and intensive reviews o historical literature

(i.e., secondary sources) and/or conducting research with historical data and primary documents/

source materials. Whereas a students credit load during the rst and second programme semesters shall

usually consist o our, 4credit courses, during the third or ourth semesters he/she may carry a credit load o

664 i.e., two research paper courses (each o six credits) and a single regularly taught course (our credits).

Te research paper courses shall usually involve regular contact with aculty members as well as require the

student to do independent research. Te research paper in each case is expected to be 5,000 8,000 words

in length, including notes and bibliography. Te research papers may involve use o nonEnglish language

sources as well as sources in English, conducting oral interviews or utilising other nonwritten sources. In

the case o these research courses, the assignments shall be evaluated by a aculty member (supervisor) or

a group o aculty members. Research essay courses shall be counted in ullment o the specialisation area

requirements outlined above. Students may complete both research papers or their major specialisation or

one each in the major and minor areas. Students shall receive guidance in the modalities o completing the

research papers.

For queries contact Dr anuja Kothiyal at [email protected]

MA Sociology


Medium of instruction: English Seats: 42

Eligibility: Bachelors degree with 45 % marks (or an equivalent grade) rom a recognised University.

Relaxation o 5% marks or candidate belonging to SC, S and PD categories.


Te Masters Programme in Sociologyat AUD is designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills

that will make them engaged citizens o the world capable o critical thinking and reective action. Te unique

approach o the programme is its ocus on orienting students to the relationship between text and context,

between sociology and society, and between the past and the present. Over the course o their programme,

students develop a reective awareness o the historicity o the social and the ability to locate the history o

the discipline within the sociology o knowledge. In so doing, we aim to ensure that while their learning isrelevant in todays marketdriven world, as sociologists, they are also equipped to critique the commodication


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o knowledge in a consumerist economy. Te MA programme in Sociology at AUD envisages its students ascompassionate researchers and active learners who are committed to making a dierence in the world.

Te curriculum in Sociology at AUD achieves this by means o innovative courses that sharpen students

communication skills and proessional capabilities. Our unique courses on Workshop on Expressions and

Organisational Exposure demonstrate this orientation. Te ormer is aimed at developing students writing,

library research and presentation skills as it takes them through the mechanics and protocols o various genres

o writing rom proposals to reports, theses and dissertations. Te latter course introduces students to a

range o organisations in and around Delhi that are engaged in social science research and advocacy, and hence

to the world o employment opportunities or sociologists in the NGO, governmental, and private sectors.

All students complete a Dissertation that entails primary research whether textual, archival, or eld

based that is relevant to their research question and interests. Te courses on Social Teory and Social

Research are conceptualised in such a way that they oreground the necessary dialogue between the world

o abstraction and everyday lie. For example, in the courses on Social Research, emphasis is placed on

demonstrating the links between epistemological assumptions, methodological approaches, and specic

methods and techniques o research. Likewise, in Social Teory, we animate the links between ontological

worldviews, middlerange theoretical ormulations, and concrete theoretical concepts. In sum, our curriculum

aims to impart the necessary and continuous movement between deductive and inductive modes o reasoningand scholarship in the study o society. Other core courses on Culture, Hierarchy and Dierence, andEconomy,

Politics andSociety examine the mutual constitution o the economic, cultural and political realms in Indian

social lie. Te course titled Sociology o Indian Society, on the other hand, introduces the students to various

perspectives and debates in Indian Sociolog y through an examination o substantive themes such as caste,

village, community and gender.

AUDs exible academic structure osters an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and research. Students

must complete ve elective courses over the course o their programme. Tey may choose rom a range o

courses that are on oer within the School o Liberal Studies in the Humanities or Social Sciences, or rom

other schools in Development, Psychology, Ecology, Education, Business, etc. Graduates rom our programme

are thus taught to think broadly and to ask questions rom multiple vantage points, while delving deeply into

specic research issues. Tis breadth and depth o scholarship and training is unparalleled among Sociology

programmes in Indian academia.

Te Sociology aculty at SLS is drawn rom varied academic backgrounds whose research methodologies span

the spectrum o survey research, case studies, lie histories, interviews, and narrative and content analysis.

Fields o research specialisation include the environment, agrarian change, caste and exclusion, class ormation,

culture and consumerism, globalisation and transnational migration, social movements, and gender and

sexuality studies. Tere are also sociologists and anthropologists at AUD who are located in schools other


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than SLS. Tey make signicant contributions to the scholastic and educational lie o Sociology at AUD andare an important resource or students as research advisors.

Proposed MA Sociology Programme Structure (Credits in Parentheses)

Courses Semester 1 Semester 2 Summer Semester 3 Semester 4

Core

Interdisciplinary

courses

Social Teory 1 (4)

Sociology o Indian

Society 1 (4)

Culture, Hierarchyand Dierence (4)

Social Teory 2 (4)

Sociology o Indian

Society 2 (4)

Social Research 1(4)

Economy, Politics &

Society (4)

Social Research 2 (4)

Programme Specic

Corse Courses

Work on

Expressions 1 (2)

Organisational

Exposure (4)

Workshop on

Expressions 2 (2)

Dissertation 1 (2)

Fieldwork Dissertation 2 (4)

Electives Elective 1 (4) Elective 2 (4)

Elective 3 (4)

Elective 4 (4)Elective 5 (4)

Credits per semester

(total 64)

16 credits 16 credits 16 credits 16 credits

Core Courses

Social Teory 1: Classical Teory

A course on Social Teory will introduce students to the classical sociological thinkers like Marx, Weber,

Durkheim and Simmel. Tis course highlights their ideas about modern society, capitalist order, social

inequality and change. Te objective will be to touch on their similarities and dierences on the above themes.

Te course dwells on the distinctive method that each o these thinkers adopt in understanding the society

they lived in. Te Social Teory 1 course will also introduce students to some o the classical anthropological

thinkers. While the classical sociologists were by and large busy studying the modern European society,

anthropologists like Malinowski, RadclieBrown, EvansPritchard and Frazer studied the socalled primitives.

Teir works/monographs on primitive cultures remain seminal in enriching and deepening our understanding

o the social.


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Social Teory 2: Contemporary Teory

I the classical social theorists were preoccupied with understanding modern society, more contemporary

theorists have been engaged with the dual project o debating these theories, while also attempting to

understand the emergent realities o their own social worlds. Our reading o contemporary theory will thus

be comparative and historicalin ways that productively extend students knowledge o classical social theory.

Tis course will examine exemplary works that address a range o social issues and develop varied theoretical

standpointsrom later strands in hermeneutics to contemporary orms o discourse analysis, postMarxism,

poststructuralism, postmodernism, postcolonialism and eminismwhich are germane to a wide variety o

substantive elds in the social sciences. Te aim is to provide students with the necessary skills to enable them

to read theory as they progress urther in their studies and ocus on specic issues, and to start building their

own theoretical toolkits.

Social Research 1

Te courses on Social research 1 and 2 are spread across two semesters. Te course Social Research in the

rst semester introduces students to the epistemological oundations o a major methodological tradition in

social sciences, namely Positivism and its implications or the pursuit o research. Building on the debates on

Positivism, the course trains students in the ormulation o research problem, research designs and varioustechniques o data collection. Te objective o the course will also be to expose students to various statistical

methods o data analysis and computer aided packages such as MS Excel, SPSS and AtLasti.

Social Research 2

Social Research 2 begins with critiques o positivism, such as, Hermeneutics, Feminist, PostStructuralist,

Marxist and PostMarxist, and their methodological implications or the pursuit o social research. Te students

will be taught to look at social reality in a more layered and embedded sense. Te course will train the students

in various techniques o research, such as ethnography, case studies, content analysis, discourse analysis, ocusgroup studies, and participatory action research. Te objective o the course will also be to expose students to

various methods o data analysis and computer aided packages such as NVIVO, CADAS.

Sociology o Indian Society 1

Te course introduces students to the growth and development o sociology in India and the debates pertaining

to it. It traces the trajectories o can there be a Sociology o India debate initiated in 1957 by Dumont and

Pocock. Building on those debates the course urther examines various discourses on Indian Society. Whether

traditionmodernity continuum is still a relevant rame, whether there are distinct schools as articulated by


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some scholars or whether historicising Indian society is a way out these are some o the questions the coursewill address. In addition, the course will examine the dominant and central themes, namely village dynamics

and caste and kinship networks, o early sociology in India and how the disciplinary ocus gradually shifed to

other substantive themes.

Sociology o Indian Society 2

Tis course is a ollow up o the Sociology o Indian Society 1. Here the ocus o the course shifs rom macro

theoretical debates to the way these debates get played out on the ground. Te course will try and examine

various attributes and eatures o Indian society in terms o its institutions and processes. Te emphasis andocus o the course will be on the contemporary dynamics and themes o Indian society as reected in studies

on gender, media, religion, globalisation and transnationalism. Te course will revisit the Sociolog y o India

debate and examine the merits o some o the new perspectives and questions as articulated by Sociologists

such as A.R. Vasavi, Veena Das, Sujata Patel and others.

Organisational Exposure

Te course is designed to create an interace between students and various organisations working largely

on social issues. Te course attempts to prepare and equip the students with the relevant exposure to areas

o work, people and organisations where sociology as a discipline is not just valued but also preerred. Tis

course would thereore involve eld visit to organisations ranging rom NGOs, international research and

development agencies to media and corporate houses, with an aim to acquaint the students with various career

prospects. Te students will be expected to locate the organisations they visit in the larger contexts o social

processes and structures.

Workshop on Expression

Tis course is meant to equip students with writing and research skills. Tis course restricts itsel to training

students in some o the undamental learning skills which research methodology courses do not cover

systematically. Tis course is divided into two parts spread over the rst two semesters. Te rst part is

directed towards techniques o gathering inormation and the second part towards sharing inormation. Upon

completion o the rst part o this course students are expected to learn various skills required or gathering

inormation like eective use o a library and the internet and also learning to read and review literature.


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Economy, Politics and Society

Tis course aims to capture Indian society in the throes o transition. Te course studies the specic character

o economic and political modernisations in India. It moves away rom the trinity model whereby market,

state and society appear as three distinct entities, towards an examination o the complex process o institution

building shaped by colonial modernity and nation building in postcolonial India. Te process o institution

building has never been a uniorm experience in India. What we encounter is not one single state or market,

but its dierent avatars occasioned/necessitated by regimes o governmentalities. Te course intends to

expose students to the changing political economy o India. Apart rom looking at state and market as grand

institutions articulating and drafing rules o governance, the course visits the idea o the everyday state and

market. Te objective here is to view institutionalisation rom the bottom. It tells us a great deal about the

banality o the socalled institutions and how they are minutely and, at times, imperceptibly textured into

wider society.

Culture, Hierarchy and Diference

Tis course will examine the ways in which culture re/produces dierence, hierarchy and inequality and how

individuals are produced as cultural subjects. We will begin with some classic statements in the study o culture,

such as those by Raymond Williams, Cliord Geertz, Paul Willis and Stuart Hall rom the BirminghamSchool o Cultural Studies, and the postOrientalist scholarship o the subaltern studies collective. We will

then turn to an examination o contemporary politics in India that have brought issues o cultural hegemony

to the ore in the remarking o identities, hierarchies and dierence. Tese will include the rise o identity

politics and the Hindu Right since the 1980s, the shaping o a majoritarian public sphere, the reinvention o

tradition in the castegender nexus as evidenced in the incidents o honour killings and khap panchayats, and

the emergence o a visible sphere o middleclass consumerism and consumption in the urban cityscape and

in provincial towns. Te goal throughout is to comprehend the making o hegemonic cultures through which

compliant and desirous subjects are produced and, through them, hierarchy and inequality reproduced.

Elective Courses

Te basket includes some very exciting courses on Social Exclusion, Agrarian Societies, Globalisation and

ransnationalism, Religion and Society, Social Construction o Gender and Sexuality, Sociology o Education,

Narrative, Sel and Society, Medical Sociology, Family and Kinship, Science, echnology and Society,

Environment and Society.

For queries contact Dr Santosh Kr. Singh at [email protected]


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Assessment and EvaluationCourses shall be transacted through classroom teaching, teacherguided discussions, tutorial writing and oral

presentations made by the students. Te medium o instruction is English. Students shall be evaluated on

the basis o tutorials, written and oral assignments and participation in discussions, midterm examinations,

termend examinations, research essays and dissertations. AUD is committed to a pedagogy o continuous

assessment; this means that students will obtain grades across the teaching semester by completing a variety

o exercises or assessments, and no single exercise shall account or more than 40% o the total assessment,

the only exception being the courses based on the production o research essays. Students will not be able to

perorm at the required level and complete the programme simply by attending classes and clearing an end-termexamination. Failed courses may be repeated or another course ullling the same programme requirements as

the ailed course (and with the same credit weightage) may be opted or. On other matters, the general policy

ramework o the University is applicable to the admission and academic requirements o MA students.


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General Rules and Procedures

Eligibility

Eligible candidates should have a Bachelors degree rom a recognised University, with 45% marks (or equivalent

grade) in any subject. Relaxation o 5% will be given to candidates belonging to SC, S and Physically Disabled

(PD) categories. Meeting the eligibility criteria will not ensure a seat or any candidate. Admission will be

strictly on the basis o marks obtained in the admission test and interview as applicable. Eligibility is essential

or appearing or the admission test.

Merely qualiying in the entrance test and the interview will not entitle candidates to claim the right to

admission. Tey will have to satisy all the eligibility conditions laid down by the University.

Note: Candidates appearing in the nal year examination o Bachelors / Postgraduate Degree Examinations

are eligible to apply irrespective o their percentage o scores obtained till the time o application, provided

that they ulll the eligibility criteria when their results are declared and which must be submitted to the

AUD Oce beore 31 July 2012.

Medium of Instruction

Te medium o instruction at AUD is English. However, we encourage students rom dierent linguistic

backgrounds to apply or admission to the postgraduate programmes at AUD.

Application Procedure

Te Bulletin o Inormation and acilities or onsite lling o application orms will be available at theUniversitys campuses at Kashmere Gate and Dwarka rom 25 May 2012 to 20 June 2012 between 10 am to

4 pm. Te last date or applying is 20 June 2012. Details regarding the application procedure will be updated

rom time to time on the University website.

Selection Procedure

Te admission to various MA Programmes in SLS would take place through entrance tests to be held in

the rst week o July 2012, ollowed by interviews or Economics and English. Te ormat and structure o

admission tests or the dierent programmes o the School o Liberal Studies would be as given below:


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MA EconomicsAdmission will be through a combination o a written test and an interview, with the weights or the two

components being 75 per cent and 25 per cent respectively. Basic analytical and quantitative problemsolving

skills, understanding o economic concepts covered in any standard undergraduate programme in economics,

and awareness o contemporary issues will be tested.

MA English

Te admission test will comprise a written test and an interview. Te written test will have two sections.In the rst section, candidates will be required to write an essay as a response to a passage and also critically

appreciate a short literary text. Tese questions will assess their aptitude or literature, and their analytical and

critical abilities. In the second section, candidates will be evaluated on their language skills.

MA History

Te entrance test will consist o a combination o questions requiring short and long written answers. It is

designed to assess the applicants aptitude or studying history and tests analytical capacities and (English)language prociency. Material, i any, and detailed instructions about the test shall be placed on the AUD

website a ew weeks prior to the entrance examination.

MA Sociology

Te entrance test will comprise essay type questions meant to assess the candidates analytical ability and

capacity to articulate alternative ideas with regard to contemporary social realities.

(Further details on entrance tests would be available on our website www.aud.ac.in)

Seats

42 seats per MA programme


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Reservation of SeatsReservations are provided to the candidates as per the guidelines based on the norms applicable to educational

institutions in the NC o Delhi. Tese are (subject to change as per Government notications):

Programme MA

otal Intake Capacity 42

Delhi Quota (NC)1

(85%)

otal 36

DSE (15%) 5

DS (7.5%) 3DOBC (27%) 10

DGeneral (not reserved) 18

Open to nonDelhi candidates

(outside NC) (15%)

otal 6

OSC (15%) 1

OS (7.5%) 0

OGeneral (not reserved) 5

Some seats have been kept aside or the ollowing categories o students. Tese will be over and above thesanctioned seats in the dierent programmes o study as per details below2:

Categories For MA (in each class)

Foreign National3

Single Girl Child 1

Extra Curricular Activities/ Sports 1

Kashmiri Migrants 1

Physically Disabled (PD)4 1

Wards o Armed Forces Personnel killed or disabled in action (WAFP)5

1

1 NC will mean that the applicant should satisy at least one o the ollowing conditions:a. Te qualiying degree or admission to the programme is rom an institution in Delhi.b. Te residence o the applicant is in Delhi.

2 Subject to ulllment o the eligibility criterion to get admission.

3 It was decided by the Admission committee that a maximum o 2 seats per programme would be allowed or Foreign Nationals in each MAprogramme.

4 3% o total number o sanctioned seats.5 3% o total number o sanctioned seats.


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FeesRs. 16,000 per semester will be charged as the ull semester ees. Te total ee payable at the time o admission

will be Rs. 16,000 (or Semester 1) and a reundable caution deposit o Rs. 2,000 or the use o university

acilities.

Fee Waivers and Scholarships

A large number o partial and ull ee waivers and scholarships are available. As ar as possible, the University

will ensure that deserving prospective students are not denied the opportunity o studying at AUD due to

their inability to pay the ees.

Cancellation of Admission

Te admission o Candidates who ail to provide proo o securing the merit as evident rom original transcript

is likely to be cancelled. Reund o ees in such cases will be as per the policy on reund o ees.

University Policy on Refund of Fees

ime Period for refund in a particular programme of study Amount to be deducted

Beore start o Orientation Rs. 1,000

Afer start o Orientation Only caution deposit will be reunded

edecisionoftheAdmissionCommitteeonallmattersofadmissionwillbenal.

ejurisdictionofanydisputewillbelimitedtotheNCTofDelhi.

Admission to Foreign Students

Some seats have been kept aside or oreign students over and above the sanctioned seats in dierent programmes

o study. Te details are given in the section Reservation o Seats.

Eligibility: Te eligibility in terms o academic qualications or oreign students will be the same as or

Indian students. However, they must produce evidence o prociency in English. In addition, oreign students

should ulll the ollowing conditions beore nalisation o admission:


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1. Tey must hold a student visa endorsed by the Ministry o External Aairs to Ambedkar University,Delhi. Te visa should be valid or the entire period o study.

2. Teir eligibility equivalence must be recognised by the Association o Indian Universities.

3. Tey must meet the conditions specied by the UGC and the Ministry o External Aairs rom time to

time.

Fees: Te ees or oreign students would be US$600 per semester. In addition, they would have to pay Rs.

2,000 as a reundable caution deposit.

Te dates or submission o orms or dierent programmes by oreign students are rom 25 May 2012 to

20 June 2012.

Foreign students should send their applications to the following address:

Dean, Student Services

Ambedkar University Delhi

Lothian Road, Kashmere Gate Campus

Delhi110006

[email protected]

Anti-Ragging Regulations

Ambedkar University, Delhi is opposed to all orms o ragging. Fresh students are advised that they should

desist rom doing anything, willingly or against their will, even i ordered to do so by a senior or any other

student that could be considered to constitute ragging. Also any attempt at ragging should be promptly

reported to the AntiRagging Squad or to the Dean or to the Head o the Institution. Detailed antiragging

regulations are available on the University website. All students admitted to AUD will have to submit anadavit that they will not indulge in any orm o ragging. A similar adavit will also have to be submitted by

their parents/guardians.


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Creating Gender-Sensitive Campus Spaces

Ambedkar University, Delhi is committed to ensuring a dynamic and participatory academic experience and

a sae campus or all its members. Our endeavour is to create a campus environment or our students and

sta, both women and men, in which we as individuals and as part o diverse collectives can grow and explore

our potential without ear or the burden o prejudices. AUD is engaged in devising consciousnessraising

methodologies that will enable the university community to develop a common understanding o sexual

harassment that it is a violation o ones dignity as well as reedom o mobility, reedom o speech and o

expression. We are also creating a code o conduct that will serve as behavioral guidelines to ensure a congenialand equitable environment or all members o the University.

We are committed to providing a creative and stimulating academic culture and a healthy and sae campus lie

to our students and sta. We welcome all those who join us in the coming year to become a part o this process

o creating a unique campus environment and participating in a rewarding academic experience.


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Application Procedure

1. Te Bulletin o Inormation o the School o Liberal Studies and acilities or onsite lling o orms will

be available rom 25 May to 20 June 2012 on all working days at the Kashmere Gate and Dwarka oces o

the University rom 10 am to 4 pm or Rs. 70 and Rs. 300 respectively. Te price o the application orm

or SC / S / PD applicants will be Rs. 100.

2. Application orms can also be downloaded rom the website o the University (www.aud.ac.in) and also

submitted online.

3. Completed application orms downloaded rom the website can also be sent by post accompanied with a

demand draf in the name o Ambedkar University, Delhi or Rs. 300. For SC / S / PD candidates the

amount will be Rs. 100. Tose who have purchased the orm will not be required to pay any ee.

4. Completed applications can be submitted in person at the Kashmere Gate as well as the Dwarka oces o

the University or sent by post.

5. Te last date or submission o applications is 20 June 2012. Tose applying by post must ensure that their

application along with enclosures reaches in time. Te University shall not be responsible or delays caused

by the postal department. Applications that reach afer the due date will not be entertained.

6. No acknowledgement or any other communication will be sent to individual candidates. Candidates mustconsult the website and / or the notice boards o the University or checking the status o their application.

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