Caste, tribe, family and kinship
Whole chapter · 7–11 focused hours
Caste, tribe, family and kinship
First systematic GS study; comfortable reading English prose. Constitutional and economic foundations are budgeted in their own chapters.
Includes
- Assigned sections and comparison notes
- Available mapped questions and analysis of mistakes
- One initial recall and application review
Separate time needed
- Later spaced revision
- Full-length mock tests
- Refreshing demographic statistics and contemporary examples
- Separate constitutional, economic and geographical foundations
Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data
Whole chapter reading
- Indian Society, chapter 3 ↗
Section 3.1, PDF pages 2–9: varna/jati, normative caste features and changing social power. Distinguish prescriptive rules from observed practice; historical origins and blanket claims of immutability are not assigned
- Indian Society, chapter 3 ↗
Section 3.2, PDF pages 10–14: language/livelihood diversity, disputed definitions, interaction and autonomy. Omit physical-racial classification and dated statistics; historical theories are objects of analysis, not biological facts
- Indian Society, chapter 3 ↗
Section 3.3, PDF pages 14–16: household forms, descent and change. Distinguish descent, inheritance, residence and authority; exclude universal claims about absence of matriarchy
- Social Change and Development in India, chapter 2 ↗
PDF page 13: caste associations as political pressure groups; do not repeat the cultural-change chapter