Meaning, scope and aims of Anthropology, its relationship with History, Sociology, Psychology, Environmental sciences and life sciences.
Biological Anthropology and its main fields of study - organic evolution, palaeontology; primotology, comparative anatomy (man and anthropoid apes); human races and genetics.
Indian Prehistory and Protohistory-Major cultural traditions.
Basic concepts of culture and society-meaning characteristics and basic attributes of culture; cultural relativism; culture and civilization social institutions; groups tribe, caste and class, social function and social evolution.
Social and economic institutions-family, marriage, kinship modes of exchange, reciprocity, redistribution, market and trade, Primitive and peasant economic systems.
Section - B
Varna, Purushartha, ashram the sociocultural disabilities of women and certain caste-groups.
Socio-cultural processes of change in Indian society-sanskritization; westernization, acculturization and modernization.
Integrated development of scheduled tribes; scheduled castes and OBCs in India-problems of indebtedness, bonded labour, low literacy, land alienation and under employment and Constitutional and legal safeguards for them.
Strategies and approaches of planned development of Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled castes and OBCs.
Field work tradition in Anthropology and methods of data collection-genelogical method; case-study, interview and observation, situational analysis.
