| A: INDIAN SOCIETY |
| Unit 1: Introducing Indian Society |
| Colonialism, Nationalism, Class and Community |
| Unit 2: Demographic Structure And Indian Society |
- Theories and concepts in demography
- Rural-Urban Linkages and Divisions
- Population Policy in India
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| Unit 3: Social Institutions: Continuity & Change |
- Caste and the Caste System
- Tribal Communities
- Family and Kinship
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| Unit 4: Pattern of Social Inquality & Exclusion |
- Social Inequality and Social Exclusion
- Systems justifying and perpetuating Inequality - Caste, Tribe, the Other
- Backward Classes
- Adivasi Struggles
- The Struggle for Women’s Equality and Rights
- The struggles of the Differently Abled
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| Unit 5: The Challenges Of Cultural Diversity |
- Cultural communities and the nation state
- Regionalism in the Indian Context
- The Nation state and religion related issues and identities
- Communalism, Secularism and the nation state
- State and Civil Society
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| Unit 6: Suggestions For Project Work |
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| B. SOCIAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA |
| Unit 7: Structural Change |
- Understanding Colonialism, Industrialization, Urbanization
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| Unit 8: Cultural Change |
- Social Reform Movements
- Different Kinds of Social Change: Sanskritisation, Westernization, Secularization
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| Unit 9: Change And Development In Rural Society |
- Agrarian Structure: Caste & class in Rural India
- Land Reforms, Green Revolution and Emerging Agrarian society
- Green revolution and its social consequences
- Transformation in Rural Society
- Circulation of labour
- Globalization, Liberalization and Rural Society
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| Unit 10: Change And Development In Industrial Society |
- From Planned Industrialization to Liberalization
- How people find Jobs
- Work Processes: How work is carried out, working conditions, home based work,
- Strikes and Unions
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| Unit 11: Social Movements |
- Concept of Social Movements
- Theories and Classification of Social Movements
- Environmental Movements
- Class-Based Movements: Workers, Peasants
- Caste-Based Movements: Dalit Movement, Backward Class/Castes,
- Trends in Upper Caste Responses
- Tribal Movements
- Women’s Movements in Independent India
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