UNIT

CHAPTER

SUB-CHAPTER

1.

Structure of Indian Society

• Introducing Indian Society: Colonialism, Nationalism, Class, and Community.

• Demographic Structure.

• Rural-Urban Linkages and Divisions.

2.

Social Institutions: Continuity and Change

• Family and Kinship.

• The Caste System.

• Tribal Society.

• The Market as a Social Institution.

3.

Social Inequality and Exclusion

• Caste Prejudice, Scheduled Castes, and Other Backward Classes.

• The marginalization of Tribal Communities.

• The Struggle for Women’s Equality.

• The Protection of Religious Minorities.

• Caring for the Differently Abled.

4.

The Challenges of Unity in Diversity

• Problems of Communalism, Regionalism, Casteism, and Patriarchy.

• Role of the State in a Plural, and Unequal Society.

• What We Share.

5.

Process of Social Change in India

• Process of Structural Change: Colonialism, Industrialisation, Urbanisation.

• Process of Cultural Change: Modernization, Westernisation, Sanskritisation, Secularisation.

• Social Reform Movements and Laws.

6.

Social Change and the Polity

• The Constitution as an instrument of Social Change.

• Parties, Pressure Groups, and Democratic Politics.

• Panchayati Raj and the Challenges of Social Transformation.

7.

Social Change and the Economy

• Land Reforms, the Green Revolution, and Agrarian Society.

• From Planned Industrialisation to Liberalisation.

• Changes in the Class Structure.

8.

Arenas of Social Change

• Media and Social Change

• Globalization and Social Change

9.

New Arenas of Social Change

• Media and Social Change.

• Globalization and Social Change.

10.

Social Movements

• Class-Based Movements: Workers, Peasants.

• Caste-Based Movements: Dalit Movement, Backward Castes, Trends in Upper Caste Responses.

• Women’s Movements in Independent India.

• Tribal Movements.

• Environmental Movements.

Subject

Number of Questions

Number of Questions to be Attempted

Maximum Marks

Sociology

50

40

200