Modern Classics on Social Sciences

For the complete list of Modern Classics Click Here. [1st Draft – Published on 21st August, 2022, Updated: 3rd November, 2022]

Polity, Political Science, Political Ideologies, Revolutionary Literature, Sociology, Rights, Education, Law

1. Two Treatises of Government John Locke
2. On Liberty – JS Mill
3. Considerations on Representative Govt – JS Mill
4. The Subjection of Women – JS Mill
5. Four Essays on Liberty – Isiah Berlin
6. An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation – J Benthem
7. The Theory of Moral Sentiments – Adam Smith
8. Unity in Diversity – Gandhi
9. Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes
10. An Introduction to the Study of the Law of Constitution (1885) – AV Dicey
11. Constitution of Liberty (1960) – Hayek
12. Law, Legislation and Liberty (1976) – Hayek
13. State in Theory and Practice (1935) – Laski
14. Parliamentary Government in England (1938) – Laski
15. A Grammar of Politics (1938) – Laski
16. The Constitution of Liberty – Friedrich von Hayek
17. Law, Legislation and Liberty – Friedrich von Hayek
18. Anarchy, State and Utopia – Robert Nozick
19. Collected Works of Robert Owen
20. Communist Manifesto – Marx and Engels
21. What is to be done? Lenin
22. State and Revolution – Lenin
23. Reason and Revolution – Herbert Marcuse
24. Eros and Civilization – Herbert Marcuse
25. One Dimensional Man – Herbert Marcuse
26. The Constitution of Society – Anthony Giddens
27. The Third Way – Anthony Giddens
28. Emile – Jean Jacques Rousseau
29. The Social Contract – Jean Jacques Rousseau
30. The Revolution Betrayed – Leon Trotsky
31. Enquiry Concerning Political Justice – William Godwin
32. Vindication of the Rights of Man – Mary Wollstonecraft
33. Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) – Mary Wollstonecraft
34. The Feminine Mystique (1963) – Betty Friedan
35. Sexual Politics (1970) – Kate Millett
36. The Female Eunuch (1970) – Germaine Greer
37. The Second Stage (1983) – Betty Friedan
38. The Second Sex (1949) – Simone De Beauvoir
39. Sex and Destiny (1985) – Greer
40. The Whole Woman (1999) – Greer
41. The Sociological Imagination (1959) – Wright Mills
42. General Education in a Free Society (1945) – Harvard
43. Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832) – John Austin
44. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men, 1754
45. Civilization and Its Discontents – Sigmund Freud
46. Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
47. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
48. John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1861–1863
49. John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill, The Subjection of Women, 1869
50. Edward Said, Orientalism, 1978
51. Judith Butler, “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution”, 1988
52. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, 1990
53. John Dewey, Freedom and Culture, 1939
54. Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, 1945
55. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
56. Isaiah Berlin, “Two Concepts of Liberty”, 1958
57. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, 1971
58. Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, 1974
59. Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice, 2009
60. We and Our Nationhood Defined – Golwalkar
61. Bunch of Thoughts – Golwalkar
62. Hindutva – Veer Savarkar
63. The Discovery of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
64. Nationalism – Rabindranath Tagore
65. Pakistan or the Partition of India – Ambedkar
66. Considerations on Representative Government – JS Mill
67. Our Constitution – Subash Kashyap
68. Linguistic Surver of India – Grierson
69. Young India – Gandhi
70. The Division of Labor in Society (1893) – Emile Durkheim
71. The Rules of Sociological Method (1895) – Emile Durkheim
72. Suicide (1897) – Emile Durkheim
73. The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1912) – Emile Durkheim
74. The Problems of Political Philosophy (1976) – D.D. Raphael
75. Whatever happened to tradition – Tim Stanley
76. The Rise of Meritocracy – Michael Young
77. The Spirit of Laws – Montesquieu
78. Democratic Theory – Essays in Retrieval – C.B. Macpherson
79. What is Poverty – Pieire Joseph Proudhan
80. The Meaning of Genocide – Mark Levene
81. Modernity and Holocaust – Zygmunt Bauman
82. The Open Society and Its Enemies – Karl Popper
83. The Poverty of Historicism – Karl Popper
84. The People of India – Herbert Risley
85. The Passion of the Western Mind – Richard Tarnas
86. The Abolition of Man – C.S. Lewis

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