| 1. | Structure of Indian Society | • Introducing Indian Society: Colonialism, Nationalism, Class, and Community. • Demographic Structure. • Rural-Urban Linkages and Divisions. |
| 2. | Social Institutions: Continuity and Change | • Family and Kinship. • The Caste System. • Tribal Society. • The Market as a Social Institution. |
| 3. | Social Inequality and Exclusion | • Caste Prejudice, Scheduled Castes, and Other Backward Classes. • The marginalization of Tribal Communities. • The Struggle for Women’s Equality. • The Protection of Religious Minorities. • Caring for the Differently Abled. |
| 4. | The Challenges of Unity in Diversity | • Problems of Communalism, Regionalism, Casteism, and Patriarchy. • Role of the State in a Plural, and Unequal Society. • What We Share. |
| 5. | Process of Social Change in India | • Process of Structural Change: Colonialism, Industrialisation, Urbanisation. • Process of Cultural Change: Modernization, Westernisation, Sanskritisation, Secularisation. • Social Reform Movements and Laws. |
| 6. | Social Change and the Polity | • The Constitution as an instrument of Social Change. • Parties, Pressure Groups, and Democratic Politics. • Panchayati Raj and the Challenges of Social Transformation. |
| 7. | Social Change and the Economy | • Land Reforms, the Green Revolution, and Agrarian Society. • From Planned Industrialisation to Liberalisation. • Changes in the Class Structure. |
| 8. | Arenas of Social Change | • Media and Social Change • Globalization and Social Change |
| 9. | New Arenas of Social Change | • Media and Social Change. • Globalization and Social Change. |
| 10. | 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. |
