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PSIR Optional 2027 — Target 280, Certified

Ace PSIR, Ace Mains — India's first Political Science & IR optional course with think-tank certification

All levelsEnglish (with bilingual Hindi explanations) · 76 live sessions · 1,247 enrolled · Updated July 2026

What you'll learn

✓Command both PSIR papers with conceptual depth, not rote memorisation
✓Convert dense theory into structured 280+ level Mains answers
✓Master Western political thought (Plato to Gramsci) and Indian political thought (Manu to Ambedkar)
✓Decode comparative politics, approaches and political analysis frameworks
✓Map India's foreign policy and contemporary IR debates to current affairs
✓Leverage the PSIR–GS Paper 2 overlap (polity, governance, IR) for double-scoring
✓Build a personalised, question-type-specific answer-writing template

Course content

4 sections · 76 items · 151h 31m total
Introduction to PSIR
29 Jul 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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Western Political Thought Thinker 1 - Plato
31 Jul 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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Thinker 2 - Aristotle
3 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 59m · zoom
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Thinker 3 - Machiavelli
5 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 59m · zoom
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Thinker 4 - Hobbes
7 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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Thinker 5 - John Locke
10 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 59m · zoom
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Thinker 6 - John Stuart Mill
12 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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Thinker 7 - Karl Marx
14 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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Thinker 8 - Gramsci
17 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 58m · zoom
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Thinker 9 - Hannah Arendt
19 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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Political Theory: Meaning and Approaches
21 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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Introduction to Theories of State - Liberal
24 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 59m · zoom
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Neo-Liberal Theory of State
26 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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Marxist Theory of State
28 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 58m · zoom
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Pluralist Theory of State
31 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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Post-Colonial Theory of State
2 Sept 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 59m · zoom
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Feminist Theory of State
4 Sept 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 59m · zoom
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Justice: Conception of Justice with Special reference to Rawl's Theory of justice and its communitarian critiques
7 Sept 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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Equality : Social, Political and Economic; relationship between equality and Freedom; Affirmative Action
9 Sept 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 59m · zoom
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Rights: Meaning and theories; different kinds of rights; Concept of Human Rights
11 Sept 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 59m · zoom
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Democracy: Classical and Contemporary theories; different models of democracy - representative, participatory and deliberative
14 Sept 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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Concept of Power: Hegemony, ideology and legitimacy
16 Sept 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 59m · zoom
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Introduction to Political Ideology - Liberalism
18 Sept 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 59m · zoom
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Socialism
21 Sept 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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Marxism
23 Sept 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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Fascism
25 Sept 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 58m · zoom
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Gandhism
28 Sept 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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Feminism
30 Sept 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 57m · zoom
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End of Ideology Debate
2 Oct 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 59m · zoom
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Multiculturalism - Bhikhu Parekh
5 Oct 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 59m · zoom
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Introduction to Indian Political Thought - Dharamshastra
7 Oct 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 59m · zoom
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Arthashastra
9 Oct 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 59m · zoom
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Buddhist Traditions
12 Oct 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 59m · zoom
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Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
14 Oct 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 59m · zoom
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Sri Aurobindo
16 Oct 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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M K Gandhi
19 Oct 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 59m · zoom
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B R Ambedkar
21 Oct 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 59m · zoom
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M. N. Roy
23 Oct 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 58m · zoom
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Requirements

  • Open to any graduation background — no prior PSIR study required
  • A serious commitment to daily answer writing (45–60 min/day)
  • Laptop or tablet with stable internet for live sessions
  • Willingness to be challenged in Socratic debate

Description

An end-to-end Political Science & International Relations (PSIR) optional program built on The Roundtable Method — discussion-driven, Socratic mentorship instead of passive lectures. 400+ hours of live + recorded sessions cover Paper I (Political Theory & Indian Government and Politics) and Paper II (Comparative Politics & International Relations), mapped line-by-line to the UPSC syllabus and 15 years of PYQs. Includes 1:1 mentorship by Rohan Dange Sir, a 4+4 test series with rubric-based evaluation, a 72-hour answer-copy evaluation guarantee, audiocasts of core reference books, and five think-tank certifications. Batch capped at 45.

Who this course is for

  • UPSC CSE aspirants choosing PSIR as their Mains optional
  • First-attempt aspirants who want a structured, mentor-led optional
  • Repeaters who scored below 240 in PSIR and need to fix answer quality
  • Working professionals preparing alongside a job
  • Graduates from non-political-science backgrounds

Instructor

Rohan Dange
Rohan Dange
Founder & Chief Mentor, The Round Table IAS · Distinguished Fellow, Forum for Global Studies · 15+ yrs UPSC mentorship · PSIR, IR & Essay specialist
15+ Years mentoring3,200+ Aspirants mentored80+ PSIR top-scorers (240+)4.9/5 Avg. mentor rating40,000+ Answer copies evaluated
Rohan Dange is the Founder and Chief Mentor of The Round Table IAS. Over 15+ years he has mentored aspirants into the IAS, IPS and IFS through a distinctively Socratic method — posing syllabus and current-affairs questions so aspirants build, challenge and refine arguments live. He believes "the civil services demand thinkers, not memorisers."

What students say

“From an engineering background with zero polisci, the Roundtable Method forced me to think, not memorise. PSIR went from 198 to 281.”

Ananya Krishnan
AIR 112, CSE 2025 · PSIR 281

“The 72-hour evaluation guarantee is real — rubric feedback on every copy. The certifications gave my board something to discuss.”

Mohammed Faizan
AIR 340, CSE 2025 · PSIR 268

“The batch of 45 meant Rohan Sir actually knew my weaknesses. Best Paper II current-affairs integration anywhere.”

Sneha Patil
Repeater · PSIR 234→272
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