Polity is one of the interesting and important subject in group 1 prelims. It has 10-20% weightage. It is one of the guaranteed subject as your efforts is directly proportional to the result.
M.laxmikanth book for polity is the most trusted source. One can completely rely on this book.
Table of Contents
Must read topics in Polity are:
- Citizenship
- Fundamental rights
- Directive principles of state policy
- President and governor
- Prime minister and chief minister
- Council of ministers
- Supreme court and high court
- Parliament and parliament committees
- Inter state relations
- Panchayats and municipalities
- Judicial review
- Amendments
- Basic structure of constitution
- Emergency provisions.
As current affairs play a key role in this exam one must have a check on recent and landmark supreme court judgements, amendments.
Most Important Supreme Court Judgements
- AK Gopalan Case 1950
- Romesh Thappar Case (1950)
- A.K. Gopalan Case (1950)
- Champakam Dorairajan Case (1951)
- Shankari Prasad Case (1951)
- Berubari Union Case (1960)
- K.M. Nanavati Case (1961)
- I.C. Golak Nath Case (1967)
- Kesavananda Bharati Case (1973)
- Indira Nehru Gandhi Case (1975)
- A.D.M. Jabalpur Case (1976)
- Maneka Gandhi Case (1978)
- Bachan Singh Case (1980)
- Minerva Mills Case (1980)
- Waman Rao Case (1980)
- Shah Bano Case (1985)
- D.C. Wadhwa Case (1986)
- Indra Sawhney Case (1992)
- Unni Krishnan Case (1993)
- S.R. Bommai Case (1994)
- Naveen Jindal Case (2004)
- Prakash Singh Case (2006)
- I.R. Coelho Case (2007)
- Aruna Ramachandra Shanbaug Case (2011)
- Lily Thomas Case (2013)
- T.S.R. Subramanian Case (2013)
- Shreya Singhal Case (2015)
- Shayara Bano Case (2017)
- K.S. Puttaswamy Case (2017)
- Indian Young Lawyers Association Case (2018)
- Navtej Singh Johar Case(2020)