Maharashtra Board 12th Political Science Syllabus 2025-26: Download PDF Below

Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education

Prateek Tomar
Prateek Tomar

Political Science is listed on the official website to be downloaded by the students. The Political Science syllabus is divided into two parts. Part 1 is based on the Indian Constitution and will talk about the Indian Constitution and its characteristics, Fundamental Rights, Duties, Legislature, Executive, and Judiciary. Part 2 is structured more on the politics in India and will talk about Party Competition, Political and Social Movements, and New Trends In Indian Politics. Both parts have different chapters to be studied by the students. Students can use Maharashtra class 12 Sample Question Paper 2025-26 to revise the syllabus after completing it.

Maharashtra class 12 Time Table 2025-26 will be released by the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary And Higher Secondary Education in August 2024. The exams will be conducted from February to March 2025-26 tentatively. Check more details on Maharashtra class 12 Political Science Syllabus 2025-26 here:

DownloadMaharashtra class 12 Political Science Syllabus 2025-26 here

Maharashtra class 12 Political Science Syllabus 2025-26: Units

Students should focus on completing the syllabus as soon as possible. They can check out the detailed information about the syllabus from the table given below and refer to it accordingly:

Parts

Topics

Indian Constitution

1. Indian Constitution: Characteristics

2. Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles, and Fundamental duties.

3. Legislature: Parliament.

Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, Law making process, Amendment procedure State Legislature: Vidhan Sabha, Vidhan Parishad

4. Executive: Union Executive:

President – Election, Power and Functions Vice President – Election, Power and Functions

Prime Minister and Council of Ministers – Election, Collective Responsibility and Role of Prime Minister

State Executive: Governor, Chief Minister, and Council of - Ministers.

5. Judiciary: Introduction, composition

A) Supreme Court: Introduction, Composition, power, and function

B) High Court: Composition, power and function

C) Subordinate Court, Lok Nyalaya

D) Independence of the judiciary

Politics in India

6. Patterns of Party Competition

i) One-party dominant system

ii) Towards a multi-party system

7. Political and Social Movements

i) Nature of social movement

ii) Role of movements in a democratic system

iii) Examples of movements i) Caste

ii) Workers iii) Women

iv) Farmers etc.

8. New Trends in Indian Politics

i) Changing relations between caste and politics – OBC Politics

ii) Regionalism and Increasing importance of states

iii) Rising importance of religion in Indian Politics

Maharashtra class 12 Political Science Internal Assessment

20 marks will be allotted for the internal assessment in Political Science for Maharashtra class 12 students. Students will have to go through the following exams in the practical session:

  • i) Field visit
  • ii) Interview
  • iii) Seminar
  • iv) Newspaper cutting
  • v) Book Review
  • vi) Project

Maharashtra class 12 Political Science Books 2025-26

If your concepts are not clear with NCERT then you can buy some popular side books to review the syllabus. Check the list of side books for Maharashtra class 12 Political Science from the pointers given below:

  • Contemporary World Politics Textbook in Political Science for Class - 12
  • Political Science Std 12 Reliable
  • 12th Grade Maharashtra Board Political Science Exam Prep Book by Target
  • Std 12 Political Science Book | class 12 Arts Maharashtra Board | Perfect Series
  • Objective Political Science
  • All In One - Political Science For CBSE Exam Class 12th
  • Shubhra Ranjan - Political Science Optional - 2024 Latest
  • Political Science [Political Organisation & Institutions]
  • CBSE Chapterwise Solved Papers 2023-2014 Political Science Class 12th (2025-26 Exam)

Maharashtra class 12 Political Science Syllabus 2025-26: How To Download

There is a simple procedure that needs to be followed when downloading the Maharashtra class 12 Political Science Syllabus 2025-26 from the official website of the Maharashtra class 12 Board of Secondary And Higher Secondary Education. You can check the steps that you need to follow from the pointers given below:

Step 1: Students must visit the official website of Maharashtra State Board of Secondary And Higher Secondary Education Pune at mahahsscboard.in/index.php

Step 2: On the homepage, click on the option called SUBJECTS AND SYLLABUS.

Step 3: From the drop-down menu, click on the option called class 12 GENERAL SUBJECT CODES & SYLLABUS

Step 4: A list of subjects will be displayed. Download the syllabus by clicking on the Political Science button.

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