Major Paper-IV (Sociology): Society and Culture in North-East India

Unit I — Historical Moving of Indian Society:

1.1 Traditional Hindu Social organizations · 1.2 Socio – Cultural dynamics through ages: Impact of Buddhism, Islam and the West · 1.3 Factors in continuity and change.

Unit II — Socio Stratification:

2.1 Caste and Class structure · 2.2 Caste as a social institution in North-East India; changing trend · 2.3 Caste-tribe relationship and process of assimilation · 2.4 Emerging class structure

• Social Stratification — caste, class, sex and gender, race and ethnicity

Unit III — Rural Society in North – East India:

3.1 Peasant society and culture in India · 3.2 Land relations – Land tenure system · 3.3 Concept of right over land among the tribes of North-East India.

Unit IV

4.1 Customs and way of life of North – East India · 4.2 Festivals and Ceremonies 4.2.1. Social and religious festivals and ceremonies

Unit V — Social Change in North-East India

5.1 Forces and factors · 5.2 Law and Social change. · 5.3 Educational Development and Social change

• Change — Social change
• Meaning, Characteristics, factors or causes of social change, processes of social change (Westernization, Modernization, Industrialization, Sanskritisation, Liberalization, Globalization)
• Law and social change