ndian Society is a topic under UPSC Civil Services Mains Exam in GS Paper -1. Along with Indian History, World History, and Physical Geography, Indian Society is also a significant portion and hence should be given its due importance. The section might be a cake walk for those candidates with Sociology optional, but many others do not seem fully confident in this area. Let’s have a quick look at the hot topics under this section as per latest UPSC syllabus.
Indian Society Syllabus for GS Mains as per UPSC
- Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India.
- Role of women and women’s organization, population and associated issues, poverty and
- developmental issues, urbanization, their problems and their remedies.
- Effects of globalization on Indian society
- Social empowerment, communalism, regionalism & secularism.
Some of the problems that the UPSC seems to like:
- Poverty
- Population
- Development
- Urbanisation/migration
- Globalisation
- Regionalism
- Communalism
- Social backwardness
- Women’s issues
- Education
Study material for social issues:
- Social Problems in India – Ram Ahuja
- UPSC: Civil Services Main – Indian Society (A General Overview) – B. Ramaswamy
- NCERT Sociology NCERT Class XI – Understanding Society
- NCERT Sociology NCERT Class XII – Indian Society, Social Change and Development in India.
- Magazines like Yojana and Kurukshetra
- Newspapers