IAS Social Issues

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

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