Department of Political Science

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The Department of Political Science is one of the oldest Departments with which North Bengal University began to cater to the needs of higher education in North Bengal and Sikkim since 1962. At present, the strength of the faculty members stands at thirteen (Three positions vacant) with five Professors, three Associate Professors and two Assistant Professors. The number of Postgraduate students is 136 (68 in each year). The Department provides for admission of M Phil and PhD students to the Departments.

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    Human Rights Perspective and Development Discourse: An Exploratory Note on Intellectual Possibilities towards Relation Building
    (University of North Bengal, 2014-03) Chakraborty, Tirthankar
    This paper seeks to unravel some of the tangled threads of contemporary rights talks. For some, the grounding of rights-based approaches in human rights perspective makes them distinctively different to the areas of development discourses. Is there any real difference between these two in practice or not? Thus, the paper tries to explore some of the intellectual possibilities which reflect on the relationship of the human rights perspective and development discourse. Through this paper some areas like Evolution of the Idea of Rights within the Humanizing Parameters, The Generations of Rights within Humanising Parameters and the Relational Experience of Human Rights Perspective and Development Discourse are generally highlighted. .
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    Role of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad in Reconstruction and Inclusion of National Education in India
    (University of North Bengal, 2013-10) Tabesum Begam; Chakraborty, Tirthankar
    As a potent force of systematized change, education actually in turn, transforms humans into human resource. It is an inner process of ethical and intellectual development for not only ‘preparation for life’, but in the final analysis the ‘finding of a way of life’. When Maulana Abul Kalam Azad took his charge as an Education Minister, our country was passing through her most delicate situation. In this particular context, he embraced ‘liberal, democratic, humanitarian and inclusion’ of his educational approach with a view to generating and transforming the outlook of the people and set the nation on the path of progress and development. In this very context, the present paper provides an analytical overview of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s role in reconstruction and inclusion of national education in India, in a way where every citizen of our country ‘finding their way of life’.