Unit I: Structure of Indian Society

• Introducing Indian Society: Colonialism, Nationalism, Class, and Community
• Demographic Structure
• Rural-Urban Linkages and Divisions

Unit II: Social Institutions: Continuity and Change

• Family and Kinship
• The Caste System
• Tribal Society
• The Market as a Social Institution

Unit III: 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

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

Unit V: 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

Unit VI: 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

Unit VII: Social Change and the Economy

• Land Reforms, the Green Revolution, and Agrarian Society
• From Planned Industrialisation to Liberalisation
• Changes in the Class Structure

Unit VIII: Arenas of Social Change

• Media and Social Change
• Globalization and Social Change

Unit IX: New Arenas of Social Change

• Media and Social Change
• Globalization and Social Change

Unit X: 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