A. INDIAN SOCIETY

• Unit 1: Introducing Indian Society Colonialism, Nationalism, Class and Community

• Unit 2: Demographic Structure And Indian Society

Rural-Urban Linkages and Divisions

• Unit 3: Social Institutions: Continuity & Change

Family and Kinship
The Caste System

• Unit 4: Market As A Social Institution

Market as a Social Institution

• Unit 5: Pattern of Social Inquality & Exclusion

Caste Prejudice, Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes
Marginalization of Tribal Communities
The Struggle for Women’s Equality
The Protection of Religious Minorities
Caring for the Differently Abled

• Unit 6: The Challenges Of Cultural Diversity

Problems of Communalism, Regionalism, Casteism & Patriarchy
Role of the State in a Plural and Unequal Society
What We Share

• Unit 7: Suggestions For Project Work

B. CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA

• Unit 8: Structural Change

Colonialism, Industrialization, Urbanization.

• Unit 9: Cultural Change

Modernization, Westernization, Sanskritisation, Secularization .
Social Reform Movements & Laws

• Unit 10 : The Story Of Democracy

The Constitution as an instrument of Social Change
Parties, Pressure Groups and Democratic Politics
Panchayati Raj and the Challenges of Social Transformation

• Unit 11: Change And Development In Rural Society

Land Reforms, Green Revolution and Agrarian Society

• Unit 12: Change And Development In Industrial Society

From Planned Industrialization to Liberalization
Changes in the Class Structure

• Unit 13: Globalisation And Social Change

• Unit 14: Mass Media And Communication Process

• Unit 15: 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.