Youth In Nation Building: An Introduction

Paper Code: 
NSS 602
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
3.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
9.00
Unit I: 
Role of Youth in Governance

APJ Abdul Kalam’s Vision of Role of Youth, Gandhiji’s Vision of Role of Youth, Gandhiji and APJ Abdul Kalam’s concept on governance

9.00

Voting and Youth, Creative Leadership Citizenship, Voting for youth

9.00
Unit III: 
Youth and Unemployment

Youth and Unemployment, Scope of Employment in villages, Right to Information

9.00
Unit IV: 
Vision for New India

Gandhiji’s andAPJ’s vision for New India, Comparative understanding of past and present

9.00
Unit V: 
Youth Leaders of India
  • Swami Vivekananda
  • Hazrath Inayath Khan
  • Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Bhikaji Cama
  • Anni Besant

Sarojini Naidu

Essential Readings: 

MK, India of My Dreams, Rajpal & Sons, Delhi 2009

APJ Abdul Kalam, Governance for Growth in India, Rupa, New Delhi 2014

Palkhiwala, Nani, A, We The People, UBS, 1997

Radha Kumar, The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women's Rights and Feminism in India,1800-1990, New Delhi: Zubaan, 2009

MK, Hind Swaraj,

References: 

Unit I

MK, India of My Dreams, Rajpal & Sons, Delhi 2009 pp 45-48

APJ Abdul Kalam, Governance for Growth in India, Rupa, New Delhi 2014 pp

10-15, 44-53

Unit II

MK, India of My Dreams, Rajpal & Sons, Delhi 2009 pp 23-27, 49-51

APJ Abdul Kalam, ibid 2014 pp 1-9, 26-43, 114-125

Unit III

MK, India of My Dreams, Rajpal & Sons, Delhi 2009 pp 52-56, 92-98

APJ Abdul Kalam, ibid 2014 pp 70-77

Unit IV

MK, India of My Dreams, Rajpal & Sons, Delhi 2009 pp 13-20, 72-74

APJ Abdul Kalam, ibid 2014 pp 126-153

Unit V

Ed. Rifkin, 75 People Who Changed the World, JAICO, Mumbai 2009, pp11-102, 214-216, 226-228

Radha Kumar, The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women's Rights and Feminism in India,1800-1990, New Delhi: Zubaan, 2009 pp 46, 48, 56

Academic Session: 
2020-21
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