IGNOU MAPS Books: Revised MPS-101 to MPS-110 and Earlier MPS Course Books

Which MPS Papers Sit in the December 2026 Term-End Examination?

No revised MAPS course has a paper in IGNOU’s December 2026 term-end examination (TEE). Every political science paper in that session carries an earlier MPS code: MPS-001 to MPS-004 in Year I, or an MPSE, MED, MGP or MGPE elective in Year II. The tentative date sheet dated 21 September 2026 runs the session from 25 November 2026 to 13 January 2027, and its programme list prints MPS, not MAPS. Look up any paper on the December 2026 date sheet by course code, and keep the hall ticket download steps ready for the week before your first paper.

A tentative date sheet can change. Recheck each date against IGNOU’s latest version and your hall ticket before fixing a reading plan.

How Many Study Hours Do the MAPS Blocks Ask For?

The ten revised MAPS courses of Year I ask for 1,200 hours of official study, because MPS-101 to MPS-110 carry 4 credits each and the prospectus converts every credit into 30 hours. IGNOU’s Common Prospectus for July 2026 counts one credit as 30 hours of learner study, so a 4-credit course carries 120 hours and a 6-credit course 180 hours. Each MPS course therefore carries 120 hours. The earlier MPS structure is heavier per paper: IGNOU’s MPS programme page puts 32 compulsory credits in Year I and 32 optional credits in Year II, which is 960 hours a year.

IGNOU issues printed study material either as a single book of blocks and units or as separate blocks for every course, on an average one block per credit, and a block usually comprises 3 to 5 units. For a 4-credit MPS course that average points to about four blocks. MPS-102 is the one revised course whose blocks were found on eGyanKosh on 28 September 2026: Block 1 on constitutional development, Block 2 on governance and institutions, and Block 3 on Indian federalism, which runs to Unit 12 on local governments.

Read against the calendar, the load looks like this:

1. 28 September to 7 December 2026, 70 days. A Year II MPS learner with eight electives faces 960 hours before the MPSE-001 paper, about 13.7 hours a day for a single reading.
2. 7 December 2026 to 8 January 2027. The 24 earlier-structure papers are spread across 33 days, so a learner with papers from both years still to clear sits them in three separate weeks.
3. By 31 March 2027. Revised MAPS learners of the July 2026 session submit their assignments, which IGNOU requires before the term-end examination.
4. The next date sheet. IGNOU has not yet announced when MPS-101 to MPS-110 are first examined, so the planner below uses a labelled planning date for them.

That arithmetic is why a revision book matters most to the earlier cohort this term. The revised cohort has months, not weeks.

Official MPS Blocks, a Help Book or a Free PDF: Which Serves Your Paper?

IGNOU writes every term-end paper for the ten MAPS codes and the 24 earlier MPS codes from its own self-learning material, so the official blocks are the first book for each. Self-learning material (SLM) means IGNOU’s own course text, bound as blocks of usually 3 to 5 units, posted to each learner who did not opt for digital copies and open to anyone on eGyanKosh, as section 1.11 of the July 2026 Common Prospectus describes it.

A help book, also called a guide book, is an independent publisher’s revision volume that condenses one course’s syllabus for the term-end examination, such as MPS-102 or MPSE-004; it is not an IGNOU publication and IGNOU does not examine from it. A free PDF is legitimate only when it is IGNOU’s own material from egyankosh.ac.in or the IGNOU e-Content app. eGyanKosh, at egyankosh.ac.in, is IGNOU’s free digital repository of self-learning material.

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The earlier-structure blocks are complete on eGyanKosh, starting with the official MPS-001 Political Theory collection. For the wider catalogue of official files, see IGNOU’s free official PDFs listed course by course. If the question is what a revision volume adds, the page on what IGNOU help books cover explains it, and guide books set beside the official blocks compares formats. Short topic summaries are a different product, described under IGNOU revision notes. Official study material is linked here only at egyankosh.ac.in, and this page does not host or redistribute IGNOU’s files.

A help book from any publisher is worth checking on four points before money changes hands. First come the cover codes: MPS-101 style for MAPS, MPS-001 and MPSE style for the earlier structure. The medium must match your registration. The edition should postdate the syllabus it claims to cover. And any promise of marks or of which questions will appear is a reason to walk away, because no publisher can make it.

What a complete course book adds for these codes:

Every MAPS and MPS Course Code With Its Official Material and Course Book

MAPS Year I has ten course codes, MPS-101 to MPS-110, each worth 4 credits and 120 official study hours, and each has its own complete course book in English and Hindi. Section 3.18 of the July 2026 Common Prospectus prints them as Semester I and Semester II of 20 credits each.

Each course book costs ₹249 as a hard copy and ₹99 as a soft copy (PDF), and a learner orders only the course codes needed. A hard-copy order carries one fixed delivery charge of ₹100, however many books it contains.

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Learners admitted before the revision stay on the earlier MPS structure until they finish. Its Year I has four compulsory codes, and all four sit in the December 2026 session:

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Year II of the earlier MPS structure offers twenty elective codes on eGyanKosh, and IGNOU’s programme page counts 32 optional credits, which a learner makes up with eight electives. All twenty have a December 2026 paper between 7 and 30 December, and all twenty sit in eGyanKosh’s MPS second-year collection.

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MAPS Semester by Semester, and the Year-Wise MPS Route

MAPS runs five courses in Semester I and five in Semester II, and a book is prepared for each code in English and Hindi. The earlier MPS structure runs by year instead, with its own codes and its own December papers.

Semester I: MPS-101 to MPS-105

Semester I holds MPS-101 Political Theory: Key Concepts, MPS-102 Indian Political System: Constitutional Framework and Institutions, MPS-103 Approaches to International Relations, MPS-104 Comparative Politics and MPS-105 Western Political Thought. All five as hard copies come to 5 × ₹249 + ₹100 = ₹1,345; as soft copies, 5 × ₹99 = ₹495. The complete course book covers one course code with its chapters, the latest previous years’ solved papers and the important questions and answers; the semester-wise Last Minute Exam Guide covers a whole semester at ₹249 with the important questions and answers only. No MAPS semester guide page exists on the site, so the only books priced here are complete course books.

Semester II: MPS-106 to MPS-110

Semester II pairs each Semester I subject with a second course: MPS-106 Political Theory: Contemporary Debates, MPS-107 Indian Political System: Processes and Dynamics, MPS-108 Contemporary Issues in International Relations, MPS-109 Comparative Politics: Issues and Debates, and MPS-110 Research Methodology. Ordering both semesters at once means ten books: ₹2,590 in hard copy with the single ₹100 delivery charge, or ₹990 in soft copy.

Semesters III and IV of MAPS

IGNOU describes the second year as core and elective courses, mostly within political science and a few interdisciplinary courses from other schools, but the July 2026 prospectus does not list their codes. Books for those codes are matched on WhatsApp once they appear on a learner’s re-registration record.

Learners Still on the Year-Wise MPS Structure

A Year I learner on the earlier structure needs four books, MPS-001 to MPS-004: ₹1,096 in hard copy or ₹396 in soft copy. A Year II learner needs the eight electives actually registered, which is ₹2,092 in hard copy or ₹792 in soft copy; choosing MPSE-004 and MPSE-007 gives the same books an MA Sociology learner would use for those codes.

Getting IGNOU’s Own MAPS Material: Dispatch, eGyanKosh and Non-Receipt

IGNOU’s printed MAPS blocks are tracked on the study material status page linked from ignou.ac.in, and material that never arrives is taken up with the Material Production and Distribution Division (MPDD) at Maidan Garhi, New Delhi 110068. The dispatch status of printed material is checked on the official study material status page linked from ignou.ac.in. Non-receipt of printed study material is taken up with the Registrar, Material Production and Distribution Division (MPDD), IGNOU, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi 110068, at mpdd@ignou.ac.in. Third-party pages circulate other status links and dispatch periods; the prospectus lists one route, and no dispatch period is stated here.

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English or Hindi, Old Codes or New: Matching the Book to Your Registration

IGNOU offers MAPS in English and Hindi medium, per the summary list of programmes in the July 2026 Common Prospectus, and the book follows the medium on your record. The complete course book is prepared in each medium IGNOU offers for the programme, and your medium is confirmed with your course codes on WhatsApp.

MAPS is the programme code and MPS-101 to MPS-110 are its course codes; MPS without the A is the earlier 64-credit programme, whose MPS-001 and MPSE codes are still examined. Which one you are on decides every book you need:

A book printed with MPS-001 is the wrong book for a MAPS learner, and an MPS-101 book is the wrong book for an MPS learner, even where the subject sounds the same. Elective changes and re-registration choices are made through IGNOU’s re-registration form, and the book list follows whatever that record shows.

Two Free MAPS Tools: Paper Days and Code Routes

The first tool turns a set of MAPS or MPS codes into study hours and days to the paper; the second resolves a single code and tells you where to go when official material is the problem. Neither needs an enrolment number.

MAPS Soft Copy or Hard Copy: Which Format Fits Your Paper Date

A MAPS or MPS learner whose paper is close is better served by the soft copy at ₹99 per book, because it arrives on WhatsApp once the order is confirmed. The hard copy, at ₹249 per book plus ₹100 delivery per order, suits a learner who revises on paper and has a few weeks in hand.

Work down this list before choosing:

1. Find your first paper date in the tables above; a December MPSE paper leaves less room than a MAPS learner’s next session.
2. Count the codes on your record, not the codes in the programme, because a Year II learner takes eight electives out of twenty.
3. Decide whether you annotate on paper or read on a phone; that preference matters more than price for a 4-credit course.
4. Mixing is allowed: soft copies for the papers due first and hard copies for later ones, in one WhatsApp order.

Other MAPS Resources on This Site

These pages answer the neighbouring questions, one sentence each. Assignment marks for MPS codes appear on the assignment result and status checker. Model answers for MPS assignments, course by course, sit among the solved assignment files. Handwritten answer sets for MAPS codes are covered on the MAPS handwritten assignment page, and the general rules are in the handwritten assignment guide. Topic lists before a paper are on the guess papers hub. IGNOU has digitised its previous question papers up to the December 2025 session at the official question paper archive, and answered versions are on the solved question papers page and the last year paper collection. After results, the percentage calculator and the CGPA calculator convert grades.

What MAPS Learners Ask For Alongside the Books

No project course sits in MAPS Year I, so project questions belong to other programmes and are answered at IGNOU project reports and synopsis and proposal formats. Requests for a combination of books across several programmes are handled the same way as single books: send the codes on WhatsApp and each one is priced per book.

How to Order MAPS Course Books on WhatsApp

Every book order is placed on WhatsApp at +91 93546 37830. The order takes four steps:

1. Type the course codes exactly as your IGNOU record prints them, add the medium, and say soft or hard copy.
2. Your course codes are checked free before any payment, so a book that does not match your registration is not sold to you.
3. Pay the confirmed total: ₹99 per soft copy, or ₹249 per hard copy plus one ₹100 delivery charge for the order.
4. The soft copy is sent on WhatsApp after the order is confirmed. The hard copy is dispatched by courier the next day, and the courier details with the tracking ID are sent to you on WhatsApp. No delivery date is promised on this page.

Charges for assignments, projects and other work appear in the site’s price list for other services, and Shri Chakradhar Publication’s own books page introduces the publisher.

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