Indian Society Notes
- Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India
- Diversity (Types – caste, linguistic, social and religious, race, tribe and ethnicity, culture)
- Challenges posed by Diversity
- Unity
- Pluralism
- Unity in Diversity
- Inequality and Exclusion
- Family System
- Women’s organizations in Indian history
- Types of women’s organizations
- 19th Century Social Reform Movements and Early Women’s Organisations
- Agrarian Struggles and Revolt
- Participation in Freedom Struggle
- Women’s organization (With Examples)
- Problems faced by women’s organizations
- Role of SHGs, Micro finance Institution
- Basic Demography of India
- Population Trends in India and their Implications
- Causes and Effects of Over Population
- Challenges of Population Explosion
- Changing Age Structure of Indian Population
- Demographic Dividend: Boon or Bane for India
- Population Aging in India
- India’s Population Policy & Initiatives
- Concept of Development and Poverty
- Types of Poverty
- Measurement of Poverty – Poverty Line
- Causes of Poverty
- Poverty as a Social Problem
- Socio-economic Spread of Poverty
- Consequences of Poverty
- Inequality
- Problem of Rising Urban Poverty
- Poverty Alleviation Initiatives
- Policy shifts from “Trickle Down” Economics to Inclusive or Pro-poor Development to Reduce Poverty
- Relation between Poverty Reduction and Development: Poverty-Inequality-Development Nexus
- Urbanisation Trends in India and Their Implications – Demographic and Social Dimensions
- Factors Driving Urbanisation
- State of Service Delivery and Challenges posed by Urbanisation
- Problems of Urban Areas
- Social Consequences of Urbanisation
- Impact of Urbanisation in Rural Areas
- Urban Planning and Role of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs)
- Reforms Required and Government Initiatives Taken So Far
- Problems of Slums
- Understanding Globalisation – Its Different Dimensions
- Globalisation & Culture – Homogenisation vs. Glocalisation
- Factors Driving Globalisation
- Globalisation & India
- Impact of Globalisation on India – Socio-cultural, economic, on women, agrarian sector etc.
- Does Globalisation cause Poverty?
- Which are the Socially Disadvantaged Groups?
- Meaning and concept of social empowerment
- Dimensions of Social Empowerment
- Why do we need social empowerment?
- Government Initiatives to Aide Social Empowerment
- Empowerment in reality and India’s experience
- Communalism – Its Characteristics
- Communalism in India in the Past
- Communalism in Contemporary India
- Causes of Communalism
- Consequences of Communalism
- Measures to Control & Eradicate Communalism
- Secularism as an Antidote to Communalism
- Concept of Region & Regionalism
- Different Forms of Regionalism
- Regionalism in India
- Causes of Regionalism
- Concept of ‘Sons of Soil’
- Consequences of Regionalism
- Federalism & Regionalism
- Role of Regional Parties
- Measures to Contain Regionalism
- Regionalism in the International Sphere
- Concept of Secularism
- Indian Model of Secularism
- Secularism in India
- Nature & Practice of Secularism in India
- Uniform Civil Code
- Challenges faced by Secularism in India
- Measures to Make India Truly Secular