• ISBN13: 9788171566655
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: July 14, 2023
• Pages: 384
• Original Price: INR 1095.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 480 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Sociology / General

The book highlights the nature and features of Indian Society and the charges that has taken place in various social institutions during different historical phases. This is comprehensive book and covers subjects widely prescribed in the syllabi of various Indian Universities at the Under-graduate and Post-graduate levels in Sociology. The topics covered include Indian Society, Indian Society and Culture, Indian Society and Social Institutions, Social Change in India and Indian Social Institutions, Contemporary Indian Society and Culture. While the subject has been presented in an analytical style with central, side and running headings, integral and holistic view has been adopted, in matters having different opinions. The language is easy and free of technical jargon as far as possible. At the end of each chapter, questions of University examinations have been given to help the students for preparing well for the examination. This ideal textbook will prove most useful to the students, teachers, policymakers and common readers.

Dr. Rajendra Kumar Sharma (born 1962), M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., U.G.C. Research Fellow, Panjab University, Chandigarh (1985-1988), worked in I.C.S.S.R. Sponsored Project (1987) on ‘Overseas Indian Entrepreneurs in Kenya’. He is LMI : Indian Sociological Society, Uttar Pradesh Samaj Shastra Parishad, Indian Research Association, U.P. Darshan Parishad. He is author of dozens of papers and books on Sociology both in Hindi and English. Dr. Sharma has utilised his experience of teaching Sociology to Post-graduate and Under-graduate students for writing ideal textbooks both in Hindi and English on almost all the papers taught in this subject at Indian Universities. He taught at N.A.S. P.G. College, Meerut (1987-1991). At present he is Lecturer at N.R.E.C. (P.G.) College, Ch. Charan Singh University.

• 1. Characteristics of Indian Society
• 2. The Hindu Varna System
• 3. The Hindu Ashram System : Rinas, Karma and Sanskaras
• 4. The Hindu Concept of Purusharthas
• 5. Caste and Casteism among Hindus and Muslims
• 6. The Untouchability
• 7. Backward Classes and Minorities
• 8. The Hindu Family : Joint Family
• 9. The Hindu Marriage
• 10. The Status of Hindu Women
• 11. Muslim Social System and Institutions
• 12. Christian Social System and Institutions
• 13. Tribal Social System and Institutions
• 14. Rural Social System and Institutions
• 15. Urbanization and Urban Communities in India
• 16. Major Religious Groups in India
• 17. Contemporary Social Change
• 18. Industrialization and Labour Problems in India
• 19. Secularization
• 20. Socio-Religious Movements in India
• 21. Tradition and Modernity
• 22. Sanskritization
• 23. Westernization
• 24. Modernization
• 25. Politicization
• 26. Democratization
• 27. National Emotional Integration
• Bibliography