NTA CUET 2022 : Syllabus

Unit I: Structure of Indian Society

• Introducing Indian Society: Colonialism, Nationalism, Class, and Community

• Demographic Structure

• Rural-Urban Linkages and Divisions

Unit II: Social Institutions: Continuity and Change

• Family and Kinship

• The Caste System

• Tribal Society

• The Market as a Social Institution

Unit III: 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

Unit IV: 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

Unit V: 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

Unit VI: 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

Unit VII: Social Change and the Economy

• Land Reforms, the Green Revolution, and Agrarian Society

• From Planned Industrialisation to Liberalisation

• Changes in the Class Structure

Unit VIII: Arenas of Social Change

• Media and Social Change

• Globalization and Social Change

Unit IX: New Arenas of Social Changes

• Media and Social Change

• Globalization and Social Change

Unity X: 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