Unit No. |
Unit Name |
Unit Sub-Topics |
Indian Society |
Unit I |
Structure of Indian Society |
- Demographic Structure
- Rural – Urban Linkages and Divisions
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Unit II |
Social Institutions: Continuity and Change |
- Family and Kinship
- The Caste System
- Tribal Society
- The Market as a Social Institution
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Unit III |
Social Inequality and Exclusion |
- Caste Prejudice, Scheduled Castes, and Other Backward Classes
- Marginalisation of Tribal Communities
- The Struggle for Women’s Equality
- The Protection of Religious Minorities
- Caring for the Differently Abled
|
Unit IV |
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
|
Change and Development in India |
Unit I |
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
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Unit II |
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
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Unit III |
Social Change and the Economy |
- Land Reforms, the Green Revolution, and Agrarian Society
- From Planned Industrialisation to Liberalisation
- Changes in the Class Structure
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Unit IV |
New Arenas of Social Change |
- Media and Social Change
- Globalisation and Social Change
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Unit V |
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
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