We recommend Shubhra Ranjan Ma'am’s notes , Which are exhaustive and comprehensive in nature . However, the interested Student's if they want can go for additional readings. We are providing you a Booklist for PSIR Optional :
- A History of Political Thought : Plato to Marx by Subrata Mukherjee & Sushila Ramaswamy (PHI)
- Western Political Thought by OP Gauba (National Paperback)
- Political Ideologies by Andrew Heywood (Red Globe Press)
- Political Theory – An Introduction to Political Science by Rajeev Bhargav & Ashok Acharya (Pearson)
- Foundation of Indian Political Thought by VR Mehta (Manohar)
- India’s Struggle for Independence by Bipan Chandra (Penguin Random House)
- Indian Government and Politics by BL Fadia (Sahitya Bhawan)
- The Oxford Companion to Politics in India by Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Oxford)
- Comparative Politics by J.C. Johari (Sterling Publisher PVT)
- Global Politics by Andrew Heywood (Red Globe Press)
- Globalization of World Politics by John Baylis, Steve Smith, Patricia Owens (Oxford University Press)
- The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy by David M. Malone, C. Raja Mohan, and Srinath Raghavan (Oxford Handbooks)