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N{aj ar-Z{Mino r-7: lndian Sociefy : Continuity

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IN-|RODLJE} I-ION

a) , Nature ancl I rnportaince of Sturiying

Nafure 'of Indian Society

l. Geogr4plrical Iiactors
lto tJnity in Diversity
'1
Religious Factor
A
1.

5. Race and Etiurity

6.
7, Tribes
8. Cultural Factors
o Political Factors

Img;ortance of Studying Indiart Socie ty

I,
\ (]ontinucd Flistory
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) Cultural I'lrrrzil i sttt
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I iiecoiid lvlost Populated Ccuntry
\, , Rcligion and phi iosophical Importance
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Evolution of Irrclian Society --Socio-Cultural Dinrension
Geographicai ancl I listorical Features
D

The Penensuian Piateau

'l'he lslancls
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flisttrrical Features Evolution of Indian Socieiy-fi'onr Vedic ll'irne and'Mocternity

d) IJnity in Diversity -Threats anC Chatienges

I . Geographical .tJnity-'ancl Diversi
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ty ',

?.. Religiolls l.Jnity'and Diveisity . '

3. Cultural Unity anC Dio.r.ity

4 . Linguistic lJriity-antl',biversit3,
5. Rural Lrniiy and,Olviriity'
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6 Politicai uriity and'Diver^sity ,

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 Threats and Challenges .*f

I. Regionalism
2. Castesinr
3. Communafism
4. Extrqmisrri and Terorisrn
5. Lingd,isrn 1,

UNIT.2 : THEORETICAL PERSPECTIYE

a' Structural-functionalism (MN

Srinivas, SC Dutre, Mckirn
b' or Textual r...f""ti*r?nuar,u Maniott)
ffi'r",i;"' ru*ui-rnrutir"dee, G.s. churye,
Louis
c. Manrist perspective : D.p Mukheuee,
c. subaltem perspective : B,R Arnbekar, A.R Desai, Rarnkrishna
R"njir
Mukherjee
Guha, David Fiardiiiiaii
UNIT- 3 : MARRIIGE, trAMILy
AND KHvSHrp
a) Marriage and Famiry among Hina*ir*..HinJu
Objectives _
Murriug.
Traditional forms fu tes and"Riruals
Family
Joint Family
Defi nition, Characteristics
Advantages, disadvantages
Causes for the clis integition

b) Muslim Marriage types, Nikha, talaq, mehr

Christian marriage
Aims, values, rites and rituals
c) Basic concepts of kinship
Type, terms degree, ,ruj"r, function
d) Kinship organization in India
-Regional vaniation Kinship-by Iravathi Klarve
e) Changes and Challenges to the Marriage
and Family_
Changes in Marriage
Refer-C. N. Shankar Rao,
Changes in Family
Refer-C. N. Shankar Rao
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t]N}T -4 : CASTE AND CLASS IN
INDIA
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Caste and Class in tndia .

a) Evolution of Caste t1. -i

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Refer - Indian Society_ A. p. Thakur
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c) Are Castc opposite of Classes.

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Diffbrences be{ween caste and classes. :

d) Changes in Caste and Class

relation. -:1
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aditional ihcorl,
Occupational thelr,o:

Folitical l'heory :

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Lri\I 1 9 - cONTEMPORrrtt),
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a) Contextualsaticn
b) Indiagenisalisrn
c) use of natiy.e
ytegories in the rurarysis
e) Sociology of In,Jia

.lcu Iskr iiizariorr

w'"estemrization
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:

: tvt6a"nriration of Incrian Tradition

(Derhi .[hornson
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(le8l):lnclian societv (Bornbav
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I4- Ram Ahuja (lgg7):Indian

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Rawar ptrblication)
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" I3iii,o[ffi,;1ii,*,,' I*tlia: corceprs, llreorics ard Recenr-r're*cIs. New

r"aiun seniar Srru*urc and
'' i]ffi:T,,5l 'oo' change: Nerv tr)elhi : riawet
I8' Yogish Arar'2006. changing India+
soci*q:. N:* Derhi : Rarvar pubiica.ticns

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