Indian Society:Structure and Change

Paper Code: 
SOC123
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

It is presumed that the student has some familiarity with Indian society by virtue of the fact that she is a member of it and that she has observed and experienced some facets of it. However, this familiarity is likely to be superficial, selective and rather fragmentary. The course is aimed at rectifying these limitations by presenting a comprehensive, integrated and empirically-based profile of Indian society. This paper aims to analyze certain features specific to Indian society like caste system as well the status of women in the Indian society through ages.

12.00
Unit I: 
  • Evolution of Indian Society: Socio-cultural Dimensions
  • Cultural and Ethnic Diversity: Historically-embedded diversities in respect of language, caste, religious beliefs and practices and cultural practices; Unity in Diversity
12.00
Unit II: 
  • Basic Institutions of the Indian Society: Family, Marriage and Kinship
  • Changing dimensions of marriage and family in India
12.00
  • Political and Economic Developments in Indian Society:
  • Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization (LPG); Problems of economic development
  • Class, Elite and Indian Politics
12.00
Unit IV: 
  • Women in India:
  • Status of women through ages
  • Constitutional safeguards and Women Empowerment

 

12.00
Unit V: 
  • Problems of Indian Society: Casteism, Communalism, Terrorism, Regionalisn
  • Nation building

 

References: 
  • Dube, S.C. 1990: Society in India (New Delhi : National Book Trust)

 

  • Dube, S.C. 1995: Indian Village (London : Routledge)

 

  • Dube, S.C. 1958: India’s Changing Villages (London :Routledge and Kegan Paul)

 

  • Karve, Irawati, 1961: Hindu Society : An Interpretation (Poona Deccan College)

 

  • Lannoy, Richad, 1971: The Speaking Tree : A Study of Indian Society and Culture (Delhi : Oxford University Press)

 

  • Mandelbaum, D.G., 1970  Society in India Bombay: Popular Prakashan

 

  • Srinivas, M.N., 1980 India: Social Structure New Delhi: Hindustan Publishing Corp.

 

  • Karve, Irawati, 1961  Hindu Society : An Interpretation Poona Deccan College

 

 

  • Dumont, L 1970. Homo Hierarchus: Caste System and Its Implications, Chicago.

 

  • Ghurye, G.S., Caste and Class in India, Bombay, 1957, Indina Sadus, Bombay, 1958.

 

  • Sharma, K.L.; 2007; Indian Social Structure and Change, Rawat Publications.

 

  • Gore, M.S.; 2002, Unity in Diversity, Rawat Publications.

 

  • Sharma, K.L. Social Stratification and Mobility.

 

  • Sharma, K.L. Social Inequality in India (2nd Edition)

 

  • Ahuja, Ram, 1999, Indian Social System, Rawat Publications.

 

  • Bose, N.K. 1967. Culture and Society in India. Bombay: Asia Publishing House

 

  • Kothari, Rajni 1995. Caste in Indian Politics. New Delhi: Orient Longman

 

 

  • Prabhu, P.N. Hindu Social Organization
  • Singer Milton & Cohen Bernard, 1968, Structure and Change in Indian Society

 

Academic Session: 
2016-17
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