B.A. LL.B. (Five Years) Sociology Minor-I-2: Indian Society, Continuity and Change Syllabus - KSLU 2026

• Coure -III Sociology

Minor-I-2:

• Annexure I.
• Major-2/Minor-2: Indian Society : Continuity and Change

UNIT -I INTRODUCTION

• e) Nature and Importance of Studying Indian Society
• Nature of Indian Society
• 10. Geographical Factors
• 11. Unity in Diversity
• 12. Religious Factor
• 13. Language
• 14. Race and Ethnity
• 15. Caste System
• 16. Tribes
• 17. Cultural Factors
• 18. Political Factors
• Importance of Studying Indian Society
• 5. Long and Continued History
• 6. Cultural Pluralism
• 7. Second Most Populated Country
• 8. Religion and philosophical Importance
• f) Evolution of Indian Society -Socio-Cultural Dimension refer K.L.Sharma
• g) Geographical and Historical Features
• 7. The Himalayan Ranges
• 8. The Indo Gangetic Plain
• 9. The Penensulan Plateau
• 10. The Costal Plains
• 11. The Thar Desert
• 12. The Islands
• Historical Features Evolution of Indian Society-from Vedic Time and Modernity
• h) Unity in Diversity -Threats and Challenges
• 7. Geographical Unity and Diversity
• 8. Religions Unity and Diversity
• 9. Cultural Unity and Diversity
• 10. Linguistic Unity and Diversity Recial
• 11. Rural Unity and Diversity
• 12. Political Unity and Diversity
• Threats and Challenges
• 6. Regionalism
• 7. Castesim
• 8. Communalism
• 9. Extremism and Terrorism
• 10. Linguism

UNIT -2 : THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE

• e. Structural-functionalism (MN Srinivas, SC Dube, Mckim Marriott)
• f. Indological or Textual Perspectives (Radha Kamal Mukherjee, G.S. Ghurye, Louis Dumant)
• g. Marxist Perspective : D.P Mukherjee, A.R Desai, Ramkrishna Mukherjee
• h. Subaltern Perspective : B.R Ambekar, Ranjit Guha, David Hardiman

UNIT- 3 : MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND KINSHIP

• f) Marriage and Family among Hinduism Hindu Marriage

Objectives -

• Traditional forms Rites and Rituals
• Family
• Joint Family
• Definition, Characteristics
• Advantages, disadvantages
• Causes for the dis integration
• g) Muslim Marriage types, Nikha, talaq, mehr
• Christian marriage
• Aims, values, rites and rituals
• h) Basic concepts of kinship
• Type, terms degree, usages, function
• i) Kinship organization in India -Regional vaniation Kinship-by Iravathi Kharve
• j) Changes and Challenges to the Marriage and Family-
• Changes in Marriage
• Refer-C. N. Shankar Rao
• Changes in Family
• Refer-C. N. Shankar Rao

UNIT -4 : CASTE AND CLASS IN INDIA

• Caste and Class in India
• f) Evolution of Caste
• Give a brief introduction of origin and development of caste during different periods
• g) Caste among Muslims and Christians
• Refer - Indian Society- A. P. Thakur
• h) Are Caste opposite of Classes.
• Differences between caste and classes.
• i) Changes in Caste and Class relation.
• j) Theories of Origin of caste
• Traditional theory
• Occupational theory
• Recial Theory
• Political Theory
• Other theories

UNIT V- CONTEMPORARY DISCOURSES

• a) Contextualsation
• b) Indiagenisalism
• c) Use of native categories in the analysis of Indian Society
• d) Sociology for India
• e) Sociology of India
• Sanskritization
• Westernization

References:

• 21. Bose, N.K. 1967, Culture and Society in India. Bombay: Asia Publishing House.
• 22. Bose, N.K. 1975: Structure of Hindu Society. New Delhi.
• 23. Dube, S.C. 1990 : Society in India (New Delhi : National Book Trust)
• 24. Dube, S.C. 1995 : Indian Village (London : Routledge)
• 25. Dube, S.C. 1958 : India's Changing Villages (London : Routledge and Kegan Paul)
• 26. Karve, Irawati, 1961 : Hindu Society : An Interpretation (Poona : Deccan College)
• 27. Lannoy, Richard, 1971 : The Speaking Tree : A Study of Indian Society and Culture (Delhi: Oxford University Press)
• 28. Mandelbaum, D.G., 1970 : Society in India (Bombay : Popular Prakashan)
• 29. Srinivas, M.N., 1980 : India : Social Structure (New Delhi : Hindustan Publishing Corporation).
• 30. Srinivas, M.N., 1963 : Social Change in Modern India (California, Berkeley : University of California Press)
• 31. Singh, Yogendra, 1973 : Modernization of Indian Tradition (Delhi : Thomson Press)
• 32. Ramnath Sharma (1981):Indian Society (Bombay : Media Promoters and Publishers Pvt, Ltd)
• 33. Oxford Handbook of Indian Sociology (2007): Ed. by Veena Das (New Delhi : Oxfod University Press)
• 34. Ram Ahuja (1997):Indian Social System (New Delhi : Rawat Publication)
• 35. Uberoi, Patricia, 1993 : Family, Kinship and Marriage in India (New Delhi : Oxford University Press)
• 36. Ram Ahuja.2002. Society in India: Concepts, Theories and Recent Trends. New Delhi : Rawat Publications
• 37. Sharma KL .2007. Indian Social Structure and Change: New Delhi : Rawat Publications
• 38. Yogesh Atal.2006. Changing Indian Society. New Delhi : Rawat Publications
• 39. Kapadia KM .1990. Marriage and Family in India(3rd Edn 12th Impression) Calcutta : Oxford University Press.
• 40. Nagla B.K. 2008. Indian Sociological Thought. New Delhi Jaipur: Rawat Publications.