Syllabus (SOCIOLOGY)

Course Type: ME-8

Semester: 7

Course Code: BSOCMEB47T

Course Title: Indian Society

(L-P-Tu): 3-0-1

Credit: 4

Practical/Theory: Theory

Course Objective: This course will provide a clear understanding about the very nature and characteristics of Indian society to the students. This course on Indian society will also provide the critical knowledge about the major social institutions of Indian society and enable the students to understand the changes occurred in those institutions.

Learning Outcome: After completing this course students will be able to • Understand the importance of multiculturalism of Indian society. • Understand the definitions, functions, and importance of major social institutions of Indian society. • Conceptualise moderni

Contents of the Course

1. Indian Society: Plurality and Diversity

2. Social Institutions and Practices: Family, Marriage and Kinship; Caste, Class, Tribe; Village

3. Religion in India: Religious Plurality, Secularism, Communalism

4. Tradition and Modernity: Continuity and Change

Reading and References:

1. Béteille, A. (ed.). (1969). Social Inequality: Selected Readings, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
2. Gupta,D. (ed.). (1991). Social Stratification, Oxford University Press
3. Mason, P. (1967). India and Ceylon: Unity and Diversity, Oxford University Press.
4. Srinvas, M. N. (1987). The Dominant Caste and Other Essays, Oxford University Press.
5. P. Uberoi (ed.). (1994). Family, Kinship and Marriage in India. Oxford University.
6. Madan (ed.) (1997), Religion in India, Oxford University Press.
7. Srivastava, S., Arif, Y., & Abraham, J. (eds.). (2018). Critical Themes in Indian Sociology. SAGE Publications India.
8. Singh, Y. (2018). Modernization of Indian tradition. Rawat Publications.
9. Ghurye, G. S. (1969). Caste and race in India. Popular Prakashan.
10. Gupta, D. (2023). The New in the Old: Celebrating Fifty Years of Modernization of Indian Tradition. Sociological Bulletin, 72(2), 150–161. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380229231155003
11. Jodhka, S. (2017). Caste in contemporary India. Routledge.
12. গাঙ্গুলী, আর. আবদুলহাফিজমইনুদ্দিন, (২০১০). সমকালীনসমাজতত্ত্ব. রিনাবুকস.
13. চৌধুরী, অ. চট্টোপাধ্যায়, কৃ. (২০০৭). সাম্প্রতিকসমাজতত্ত্ব. চ্যাটার্জিপাবলিকেশন.
14. Ahuja, R. (2018). Indian social system. Rawat Publications.
15. Xaxa, V. (2008). State, society, and tribes: Issues in post-colonial India. Pearson Education India.
16. Sarker, K. (2010). State, society, and tribes: Issues in post-colonial India.
17. Xaxa, V. (1999). Transformation of tribes in India: Terms of discourse. Economic and political weekly, 1519-1524.
18. Xaxa, V. (2016). Tribes and Indian national identity: Location of exclusion and marginality. The Brown Journal of World Affairs, 23(1), 223-237.
19. Xaxa, V. (2005). Politics of language, religion and identity: Tribes in India. Economic and political weekly, 1363-1370.
20. Jodhka, S. S. (1998). From “book view” to “field view”: Social anthropological constructions of the Indian village. Oxford development studies, 26(3), 311-331.
21. Gorringe, H., Jodhka, S. S., & Takhar, O. K. (2017). Caste: experiences in South Asia and beyond. Contemporary South Asia, 25(3), 230-237.
22. Sharma, K. L. (1984). Caste and class in India: Some conceptual problems. Sociological Bulletin, 33(1-2), 1-28.
23. Fuller, C. J. (2017). Ethnographic inquiry in colonial India: Herbert Risley, William Crooke, and the study of tribes and castes. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23(3), 603-621.
24. Ahuja, R. (2014). Social problems in India. Rawat publications.