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Trend Analysis of Indian Society

The Civil Services (Main) Examination Syllabus is mentioned as: 

• 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.

However, students sometimes fail to understand the sub-topics need to be read while preparing for the subject. 

Hence, hereby providing the list of sub-topics:

Salient features of Indian society

• Features of Indian society

• Diversity in Indian Society 

• The unity in diversity- a reality or a chimera

• Constitutional arrangements for maintaining unity in diversity

Role of women’s organizations

• Women’s organizations in Indian history

• Types of women’s organizations

• Some success stories

• Problems faced by women’s organizations

• Government initiatives for their support 

Poverty and development issues

• Concept of development

• Development and poverty mismatch

• Causes of poverty

• Poverty calculation

• Poverty alleviation schemes 

• Role of SHGs and Civil society in poverty alleviation

Population and associated issues

• Different components of population

• Data status in India (Census 2011)

• Issues due to population rise (poverty, migration, unemployment, etc)

• Family planning initiatives

• Demographic dividend and how to utilize it

Urbanization, their problems and remedies

• Urbanization introduction through census 2011

• Urbanization and issues (Waste disposal, migration, sanitation, pollution, etc)

• Steps taken by GOI

• Issues and reforms needed

Effects of globalization on Indian society

• What is the meaning of globalization?

• Impact economic, political, developmental and socio-cultural 

Social empowerment

• Issues faced by vulnerable sections

• Meaning and concept of social empowerment

• Government’s initiatives for empowerment

Communalism, Secularism and Regionalism

• Meaning and concept of communalism

• Meaning and concept of secularism

• Indian philosophy on secularism

• Meaning and concept of regionalism

• Regionalism in its various manifestations

Trend Analysis of Indian Society

How to Prepare:

For the preparation of this topic, students need to read:

1. Indian Society by S.C Dube

2. Social Problems in India by Ram Ahuja

Students should refer to the sources (as questions from this section are contemporary in nature) such as:

· Editorials from Newspapers

· Videos of government sources as Rajya Sabha TV

· PIB, Government institutes documents, etc.

Note: In IASHELPDESK we are providing the books, reports, videos, editorials and questions at one stop so that a student may concentrate on the attainment of knowledge rather than busy accessing the different sources.