| APARTHEID | Policy of racial segregation practiced by the South African Government. |
| ADJOURNMENT | A motion moved by a member of a legislature to adjourn consideration of the issues in hand for discussing a matter of urgent public importance. |
| AMNESTY | Grant of pardon or exemption from prosecution to political importance. |
| ARMISTICE | Temporary cessation of hostilities pending formal negotiations for peace. |
| APPEASEMENT | The policy of gratifying one's enemy with concession and special grants by sacrificing even principles. |
| AUTONOMY | Power to control internal affairs. |
| BILATERAL AGREEMENT | An agreement between two countries. |
| BLOCKADES | Imposing closure of ports and waterways to prevent ships from reaching or leaving it. |
| BOLSHEVISM | The doctrine of Proletarian Dictatorship as propounded by Lenin. |
| BOURGEOISE | Capitalist class in Marxian terminology. |
| BUFFER STATE | A small neutral state between two big states. |
| BY-ELECTION | A mid term election to fill a seat rendered vacant. |
| CASTING VOTE | A vote casting of which decides the tie. |
| CAUCUS | A powerful group of party. |
| CHARGED AFFAIRS | The senior most diplomat after the head of the mission, officiating in his absence. |
| COALITION | Combination of two or more parties with the purpose of forming a composite government. |
| CONFEDERATION | Alliance of nations for some specific purpose our retaining the respective individual nation sovereignty. |
| COLD WAR | The state of ideological or wordy warfare between two countries or blocks. |
| ENVOY | A diplomatic emissary accredited to the country and holding position below that of an ambassador. |
| FIFTH COLUMN | An anti-national clique of spies and saboteurs. |
| FLOOR CROSSING | The act of changing political loyalty by a person or a group. |
| FRANCHISE | Right to cast vote in the public elections. |
| GALLUP POLL | An opinion poll-may be with the help of interview. |
| GENOCIDE | Intention to destroy wholly or in part a religious, ethnic or political group. |
| GHERAO | Encircling a person and rending him incapable of doing anything till he/she concedes demands. |
| GLOSNOST | Means openness. Term used for reforms introduced in Russian society by M.Gorbachov. |
| HABEAS CORPUS | A type of a writ issued by a High Court or Supreme court against illegal detention of a person. |
| HOT LINE | A direct telephone link between the White House and Kremlin established in 1963. |
| IMPEACHMENT | Trial by the Parliament. |
| LOBBYING | Exercising influence or pressure on members of the legislative bodies in the lobby for supporting or opposing an issue in the House. |
| LOK PAL | An official appointed by the President to investigate public complaints against ministers and high officials. |
| MANIFESTO | A declaration of political party about its policies and programmes given at the time of elections. |
| NATIONALISATION | The act of taking business undertakings an institutions by the state and controlling them. |
| NAXALITE | A movement violent in character believing in Maoism: the term was first used for the peasants of Naxalbari (West Bengal) who rose against the landlords demanding land for the landless. |
| NEW DEAL | The name given to the policy of Franklin D.Roosevelt to revive and boost American economy . |
| ORDINANCE | An Act or decree promulgated by the Head of State in an emergency or when the legislative body is not in session. |
| PERESTROIKA | Used for Gorbachov's move to restructure political and economical structure of the Russian society. |
| PLEBISCITE | Voting on regional or national issue. |
| PERSONALITY CULT | Too much adulation for a ruler or a political figure. |
| PRIVY PURSE | Yearly allowances granted to the princes of Indian states after the merger of their states with the Indian Union. (New these purses are abolished). |
| PRIVILEGE MOTION | A motion moved by a legislator drawing attention of the House towards a matter involving breach of privilege of the House or any of its members. |
| REFERENDUM | People's verdict on some constitutional amendment and some other legislative issue of controversial nature. |
| SECULARISM | Affirmation in all the faiths, showing no official patronage to any religions or religions. |
| SANCTIONS | Penalty or reward imposed for disobedience or obedience attached to the law. |
| SOCIALISM | Control of production and means of distribution in the hands of the State. |
| STATUTE | Law made by the Parliament, enshrined in the statue book, which are binding on al subjects, of a particular country. |
| SUFFRAGE | Right of voting in political elections. |
| SELF-DETERMINATION | Right of a nation deciding its own form of government, its political destiny or independence. |
| TERRITORIAL WATERS | Areas of the sea up to 12 km measured from the low water mark of the coast and within the executive control of an adjacent State. |
| UNICAMERAL | A legislature having only one House. |
| VETO | Right to reject any resolution or enactment passed by the legislature. |
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