Lecture 1 - What is Political Sociology ? Scope and Key Concerns
Lecture 2 - Classical Origins: Karl Marx
Lecture 3 - Classical Origins: Max Weber
Lecture 4 - Marx, Weber and Conservation Practice
Lecture 5 - Power Elites and Reproduction of Inequality
Lecture 6 - Bourdieu and Reproduction of Classes
Lecture 7 - Antonio Gramsci and Hegemony
Lecture 8 - Foucault and Governmentality
Lecture 9 - Steven Lukes and Three Dimensions of Power
Lecture 10 - Ranajit Guha: Dominance without Hegemony and General Configuration of Power
Lecture 11 - Nature of State: Louis Althusser and Ideological State Apparatus
Lecture 12 - Nature of State: Miliband-Poulantzas Debate
Lecture 13 - Sudipta Kaviraj: Critique of Passive Revolution in India
Lecture 14 - Pranab Bardhan: India’s Ruling Elites and Development Politics
Lecture 15 - Partha Chatterjee: Civil and Political Society
Lecture 16 - Nations and Nationalism: Anthony Smith
Lecture 17 - Nations and Nationalism: Benedict Anderson
Lecture 18 - Nations and Nationalism: Partha Chatterjee
Lecture 19 - Nations and Nationalism: G Aloysius
Lecture 20 - Citizenship and Social Class: TH Marshall
Lecture 21 - Kinship and Political Authority in South Asia
Lecture 22 - Political Articulations of Caste: From Hierarchy to Mobilisation
Lecture 23 - Intersections of Caste and Democracy
Lecture 24 - Community, Identity, and Moral Economies
Lecture 25 - Case Study: Dalit-Bahujan Politics and Assertion
Lecture 26 - Class, Hegemony, and Political Mobilisation
Lecture 27 - Political Sociology of Agrarian Change and Land
Lecture 28 - Urban Informality and Class Politics
Lecture 29 - Labor, Precarity, and Informal Worker's Movements
Lecture 30 - Political Lives of Labour in India
Lecture 31 - Ethnicity, Community, and State Recognition
Lecture 32 - Sociology of Communalism and Secularism
Lecture 33 - Religion, Morality, and the Political Field
Lecture 34 - Political Rituals and Symbolism
Lecture 35 - Subnationalism: Separate Koshal Statehood Movement in India
Lecture 36 - Classical and New Social Movement Theories
Lecture 37 - Political Process Model and Resource Mobilisation
Lecture 38 - Subaltern Movements: Adivasi, Dalit, Women
Lecture 39 - Urban Protests and Anti-State Mobilisations
Lecture 40 - Case Study: Chipko Movement
Lecture 41 - Sociology of Development and Post-development Critique
Lecture 42 - From Government to Governance: Neoliberal Transitions
Lecture 43 - The Role of NGOs and Donor-Driven Agendas
Lecture 44 - The State, Welfare, and Targeted Governance
Lecture 45 - Case Study: The Rise of Self-help Groups and Micro-politics: Kudumbashree, Kerala
Lecture 46 - Legal Pluralism and the Sociology of Law
Lecture 47 - Rights-based Mobilisation and Judicial Politics
Lecture 48 - Courts as Sites of Negotiation and Performance
Lecture 49 - Customary Law, Gender, and the State
Lecture 50 - Case Study: PIL, Judicial Activism, and Chilika Bachao Andolan
Lecture 51 - Political Communication and Public Discourse
Lecture 52 - Visual Politics: Symbols, Posters, and Performances
Lecture 53 - Popular Culture and the Construction of the Political
Lecture 54 - Media, Surveillance, and the Manufacturing of Consent
Lecture 55 - Case Study: Human-Elephnat Conflict in Media
Lecture 56 - Politics of the Margins and Hidden Transcripts (James Scott)
Lecture 57 - Gender and Political Sociology: Beyond Representation
Lecture 58 - The Political in the Everyday: Affect, Emotion, and Intimacy
Lecture 59 - Decolonising Political Sociology: Southern and Indigenous Epistemologies
Lecture 60 - Final Synthesis: What is the Political Today ?
