Anthropology in Indian Context | BA SEM 4 Syllabus and Study Material Anthropology | Lucknow University

Anthropology in Indian Context
Semester IV
Paper VII

Unit I  

• The origin and growth of Indian Anthropology. 
• Approaches to the study of Indian society, 
• Culture and civilization: Indological, Anthropological and Historical.
• The basic concepts used: Great Tradition and Little Tradition, Sacred Complex,
• Universalization and Parochialization, 
• Tribe-Caste continuum, 
• Sanskritization,
• Westernization,
• Dominant Caste.

Unit II. 

• Ethnographic profiles of Indian tribes: Racial, linguistic and socio-economic characteristics.
• The different approaches to tribal problems. 
• Problems of tribal people,
• land alienation, 
• bonded labour, 
• indebtedness, 
• shifting cultivation, 
• forest and tribals,
• Unemployment health, education. 
• Tribal revolts. 
• Special problems of hunting,
• foodgathering and other minor tribes.

Unit III 

• The problems of culture-contact: Impact of urbanization and industrialization, depopulation, displacement, ethnopolitical movements. 
• History of tribal administration.

• The constitutional safeguards for the Scheduled Tribes. 
• Policies, plans and programmes of tribal development and their implementation. 
• The response of the tribal people to the governmental measures for them. 
• The role of Anthropology in tribal development

Unit IV 

• The Constitutional provisions regarding the Schedules Castes. 
• Social disabilities suffered by the Schedules Castes and the socio-economic problems faced by them.
• Status of Other Backwards Classes (OBCs), and Religious Minorities.