Contemporary India (B.El.Ed. 1st Year)

 Student Contact Hours: 130

Maximum Mark: 100

  • Internal Assessment: 30
  • Annual Examination: 70

This course is designed to develop an understanding of contemporary Indian realities through a study of key historical, political, socio-cultural and economic issues. Major contemporary concerns in education, childhood, reservation policy, environment and development are examined within inter-disciplinary frameworks.




F1.2 CONTEMPORARY INDIA SYLLABUS 

Unit 1

 India as 'society'; 'civilization'; 'nation-state'; India's emergence from the freedom struggle as a nation-state.

Unit 2 

The Constitution : its framework and scope; major social policies enshrined in the Constitution; provision related to childhood and education; concurrent status of education; National Policy on Education (1986).

Unit 3 

Economic Issues : poverty and inequality; employment; private and public sector; new economic policy.

Unit 4 

Political Issues : main features of the democratic system; central, state-level and local systems of government.

Unit 5

 Social and Cultural Issues : major characteristics of India's pluralist make-up; gender-related issues; family and child-rearing in India (to be studied with the help of a project based on locally done field work).

Unit 6 

Major Issues in Contemporary India (to be studied by class-room and individual projects) : childhood in India; environment and development; reservation as an egalitarian policy; social conflict.

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