Includes bibliography and index.

Contents: Political science -- The State-elements, nature, functions and end -- Origin and historical development of state -- Sovereignty, monism and pluralism -- Rights, liberty and equality -- Law, international law and justice -- Political obligation, revolution and punishment -- Concepts of political sociology -- Political power, its operation and justification -- Organisation of government -- Forms of government -- Mechanism of democracy -- Democratic theory -- Constitution of state and constitutionalism -- Party system, pressure groups and public opinion -- Nationalism, internationalism and imperialism -- Socialism and its varieties -- Scientific socialism -- Liberalism, fascism and idealism -- Gandhism and sarvodaya -- Citizenship, multi-culturalism and identity politics.