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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) · 78 live sessions · 1,247 enrolled · Updated August 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

5 sections · 79 items · 155h 31m total
Introduction to PSIR
28 Jul 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · loom
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Introduction to Western Political Thought I
29 Jul 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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Introduction to Western Political Thought ||
30 Jul 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 58m · zoom
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31 Jul 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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Introduction to Western Political Thought IV
3 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 59m · zoom
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Plato I
4 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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Plato II
5 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 59m · zoom
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Plato III
6 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 59m · zoom
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Plato's Theory of Justice
10 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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Plato & Aristotle - PYQ Discussion Lecture.
11 Aug 2026, 5:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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Plato's Theory of Education & Communism.
12 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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Was Plato the First Fascist
17 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · loom
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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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Introduction to Aristotle
26 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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Aristotle the father of political science
28 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 58m · zoom
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Aristotle in Criticism of Plato - Part 1
31 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm · 2h 0m · zoom
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Aristotle in Criticism of Plato - Part 2
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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End of Ideology Debate
2 Oct 2026, 7:00 pm · 1h 59m · 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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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

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.

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