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Indian Society
GS-I: Society, History & Geography
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Overview
Indian society combines continuity and change: caste, kinship and village structures persist while urbanisation, education and markets transform them.
Key points
- Salient features: unity in diversity, pluralism, hierarchy, coexistence of tradition and modernity.
- M. N. Srinivas gave the concepts of Sanskritisation and the "dominant caste".
- Westernisation refers to changes from British rule and Western contact; modernisation to rational, scientific and institutional change.
- The joint family is giving way to nuclear families, though kinship ties remain strong.
- Secularisation reduces the influence of religion in public life.
- Village society is changing through migration, markets and technology.
Practice MCQs
From the perspective of definition and scope, which one of the following statements about Indian Society is correct?
- Indian Society is unrelated to institutions, processes or real-world applications.
- Indian Society has no exceptions or limitations in exam analysis.
- Diversity and social change must be analysed through institutions, identities, mobility and unequal access.
- Social problems can be explained by one cause operating uniformly across every group and region.
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Answer: (c) Diversity and social change must be analysed through institutions, identities, mobility and unequal access.. Diversity and social change must be analysed through institutions, identities, mobility and unequal access.
Consider the following statements on Indian Society and Post-Independence Consolidation, focusing on definition and scope: 1. Social problems can be explained by one cause operating uniformly across every group and region. 2. Political integration after independence was a single-step process with no institutional or regional complexity. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- 1 only
- 2 only
- Both 1 and 2
- Neither 1 nor 2
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Answer: (d) Neither 1 nor 2. Neither statement is correct; both are common misconceptions.
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