Maharashtra State Board 11th Standard Political Science Syllabus - Free PDF Download
Maharashtra State Board Syllabus 2025-26 11th Standard: The Maharashtra State Board 11th Standard Political Science Syllabus for the examination year 2025-26 has been released by the MSBSHSE, Maharashtra State Board. The board will hold the final examination at the end of the year following the annual assessment scheme, which has led to the release of the syllabus. The 2025-26 Maharashtra State Board 11th Standard Political Science Board Exam will entirely be based on the most recent syllabus. Therefore, students must thoroughly understand the new Maharashtra State Board syllabus to prepare for their annual exam properly.
The detailed Maharashtra State Board 11th Standard Political Science Syllabus for 2025-26 is below.
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Maharashtra State Board 11th Standard Political Science Revised Syllabus
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Maharashtra State Board 11th Standard Political Science Course Structure 2025-26 With Marking Scheme
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Syllabus
Maharashtra State Board 11th Standard Political Science Syllabus for Chapter 1: Section I : Political Concepts
1 The State
- Nation
- Features of a nation
1. Population
2. Feeling of community
3. Desire to be politically separate
- Features of a nation
- Nationalism
- Features of Nationalism
- Forms of nationalism
1. Liberal nationalism
2. Conservative nationalism
3. Expansionist nationalism
4. Anticolonial nationalism
- State
- Elements of the State
1. Sovereignty
2. Government
3. Territory
4. Population
- Elements of the State
- State and Government
2 Liberty and Rights
- Liberty
- Nature of Liberty
- Thomas Hobbes
- John Locke
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Jeremy Bentham
- John Stuart Mill
- Two Concepts of Liberty
- Negative Liberty
- Positive Liberty
- Indian Concept of Liberty
- Rights
- Rights can be classified as follows
1. Natural rights
2. Moral rights
3. Legal rights
a. Civil Rights
b. Political Rights
- Rights can be classified as follows
- Human Rights
- Concept of Liberty and Rights in the Constitution of India
3 Equality and Justice
- Equality
- History of Equality
- Importance of Equality
- Facets of Equality
- Equality before law and equal protection of law
- Equality of Opportunity
- Types of Equality
- Natural Equality
- Civil Equality
- Political Equality
- Economic Equality
- Social Equality
- Equality in the Context of India
- Justice
- Types of Justice
- Natural Justice
- Legal Justice
- Social Justice
- Indian Concept of Justice
Maharashtra State Board 11th Standard Political Science Syllabus for Chapter 2: Section II : Comparative Government and Politics
4 Constitutional Government
- Constitution
- Constitutionalism
- Governments
- Major Types of Democratic Governments
1. Parliamentary Systems
2. Presidential system
- Major Types of Democratic Governments
- Federalism
5 Concept of Representation
- Representation
- Divine Right of Kings
- Representative Assemblies
- India
- Methods of Representation
- Electoral
- Non-electoral
- Non-Official
- Classification of Electoral Systems
- Number of Member that are elected from one constituency
a) Single Member
b) Multi Member - How many votes are required to get elected from any one constituency
a) Plurality
b) Majority
c) Proportional
- Number of Member that are elected from one constituency
- Right to Vote
- Channels and Levels of Representation
- Classification of Political Parties
- Origin of Political Parties
- Interest and Pressure Groups
- Non Governmental Organisations (NGO)
6 Role of the Judiciary
- Judicial Independence
- Judicial System in India
- The Judiciary and Its Functions
- Original Jurisdiction
- Appellate Jurisdiction
- Judicial Activism
- Judicial Review
Maharashtra State Board 11th Standard Political Science Syllabus for Chapter 3: Section III : Public Administration
7 Public Administration
- Public Administration
- Defining Public Administration
- Inter-relationship between Political Science and Public Administration
- Scope of Public Administration: Narrow and Broad
- Narrow Perspective
- P - Planning
- O - Organisation
- S - Staffing
- D - Directing
- CO-Co-ordination
- R-Reporting
- B-Budgeting
- Broad Perspective
- Evolution of Public Administration
- Public Policy
- Policy Choice
- Policy Output
- Policy Impact
- Administrative System in India
- How Does the Administration Function?
8 Development Administration
- Development Administration
- Evolution and Meaning
- Definitions
- Features of Development Administration
- Change oriented
- Output-oriented
- Citizen participation
- Public Commitment
- Development Administration in India
- India’s goals of development since independence
- Modernisation of the economy
- Land Reforms
- Agriculture
- Self-reliance
- Socialist pattern with social justice
- NITI Aayog
- Development Programmes
Maharashtra State Board 11th Standard Political Science Syllabus for Chapter 4: Section IV : International Relations
9 The World since 1945 - I
- The World since 1945
- Effects of the Second World War
- End of the primacy of Europe
- Division of Europe
- Role of Ideology
- United Nations
- Rise of Asia
- Cold War
- Political
- Ideological
- Economic
- Security
- Phases of Cold War
- Phase: 1945 to 1949/50 (Formative years)
- Phase: 1949/50 to 1959 (Cold war in Asia)
- Series of Military Alliances Made in Asia
10 The World since 1945 - II
- Phase 1959 to 1962 (Shifts in the Cold War)
- Phase 1962 to 1972 (Foundations of Détente)
- Phase 1972 to 1979 (Détente)
- Phase 1979 to 1985/86 (New Cold War)
- Phase 1985 to 1991 (The Gorbachev Era)
