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
