Social issues
Syllabus
1. Salient features of Indian society
2. Diversity of India
3. Role of women and women's organization
4. Population and associated issues
5. Poverty and development issues
6. Urbanization; their problems and their remedies
7. Effects of Globalization on Indian society
8. Social empowerment
9. Communalism
10. Regionalism
11. Secularism
Previous questions
2013
Q.1. Discuss the various social problems which originated out of the speedy process of Urbanization in India.
Q.2. Male membership needs to be encouraged in order to make women's organization free from gender bias. Comment.
Q.3. Critically examine the effect of globalization on the aged population in India.
Q.4. Growing feeling of regionalism is an important factor in generation of demand for a separate state. Discuss.
2014:
Q.1. How does patriarchy impact the position of a middle class working woman in India?
Q.2. Why do some of the most prosperous region of India have an adverse sex ratio for women? Give your arguments.
Q.3. The life cycle of a joint family depends on economic factors rather than social values. Discuss.
Q.4. Discuss the various economic and socio-cultural forces that are driving increasing feminization of agriculture in India.
Q.5. How do the Indian debates on secularism differ from the debates in the west?
2015:
Q.1. Describe any four cultural elements of diversity in India and rate their relative significance in building a national identity.
Q.2. Critically examine whether growing population is the cause of poverty OR poverty is the main cause of Population increase in India.
Q.3. How do you explain the statistics that show that the sex ratio in Tribes in India is more favourable to women than the sex ratio among scheduled castes?
Q.4. Discuss the changes in the trends of labour migration within and outside India in the last four decades.
Q.5. Discuss the positive and negative effects of globalization on women in India.
Q.6. Debate the issue of whether and how contemporary movements for assertion of Dalit identity work towards annihilation of caste.
Syllabus
1. Salient features of Indian society
2. Diversity of India
3. Role of women and women's organization
4. Population and associated issues
5. Poverty and development issues
6. Urbanization; their problems and their remedies
7. Effects of Globalization on Indian society
8. Social empowerment
9. Communalism
10. Regionalism
11. Secularism
Previous questions
2013
Q.1. Discuss the various social problems which originated out of the speedy process of Urbanization in India.
Q.2. Male membership needs to be encouraged in order to make women's organization free from gender bias. Comment.
Q.3. Critically examine the effect of globalization on the aged population in India.
Q.4. Growing feeling of regionalism is an important factor in generation of demand for a separate state. Discuss.
2014:
Q.1. How does patriarchy impact the position of a middle class working woman in India?
Q.2. Why do some of the most prosperous region of India have an adverse sex ratio for women? Give your arguments.
Q.3. The life cycle of a joint family depends on economic factors rather than social values. Discuss.
Q.4. Discuss the various economic and socio-cultural forces that are driving increasing feminization of agriculture in India.
Q.5. How do the Indian debates on secularism differ from the debates in the west?
2015:
Q.1. Describe any four cultural elements of diversity in India and rate their relative significance in building a national identity.
Q.2. Critically examine whether growing population is the cause of poverty OR poverty is the main cause of Population increase in India.
Q.3. How do you explain the statistics that show that the sex ratio in Tribes in India is more favourable to women than the sex ratio among scheduled castes?
Q.4. Discuss the changes in the trends of labour migration within and outside India in the last four decades.
Q.5. Discuss the positive and negative effects of globalization on women in India.
Q.6. Debate the issue of whether and how contemporary movements for assertion of Dalit identity work towards annihilation of caste.