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UNIT IIUNION EXECUTIVEPresident of India: Election, Powers and PositionCabinet form of GovernmentPrime Minister: Appointment, Powers and PositionUNIT IIIJUDICIARYFeatures of Judicial System in IndiaComposition, Powers and Position of Supreme CourtJudicial Review, Judicial Activism and Lok AdalatUNIT IVFinance CommissionPlanning CommissionNational Development CouncilEssential/Selected Readings:D. Kapur and P.B. Mehta (ed.), Public Institution in India, Performance andDesign, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005.B.L. Shankar and V. Rodriguez, The Indian Parliament: A Democracy atWork, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011.A. Austin, Working a Democratic Constitution, New Delhi: Oxford UniversityPress, 2000.A.K. Mehra and G.W. Kueck (eds.), The Indian Parliament: A ComparativePerspective, New Delhi: Konark Publishers, 2003.L.I. Rudolph and S.H. Rudolph, Explaining Indian Democracy: A Fifty YearPerspective 1956-2006, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008.B. Arora and D. Verney (eds.), Multiple Identities in a Single State: IndianFederalism in Comparative Perspective, Delhi: Konark 1995.K. Le Roy, C. Saunders and J. Kincaid (eds.), A Global Dialogue onFederalism, Montreal: Queen’s University Press, 2006.W.H. Morris. Jones, Government and Politics in India, London: Unwin 1971.Norman D. Palmer, Indian Political Systems London, George Allan andUnwin, 1963.15