1) Do you think marriage as a sacrament in loosing its
value in Modern India?
Discuss(10 Marks, 150 Words)
2) Explain why suicide among young women is increasing in
Indian Society.
(10 Marks, 150 Words)
3) Child cuddling is now being replaced by mobile phones.
Discuss its impact on the socialization of children.
(10 Marks, 150 Words)
4) Why did human development fail to keep pace with
economic development in India? (15 Marks, 250 Words)
5) Does urbanization lead to more segregation and/or
marginalization of the poor in Indian metropolises?
(15 Marks, 250 Words)
6) Why is caste identity in India both fluid and static?
(15 Marks, 250 Words)
7) Discuss the impact of post-liberal economy on ethnic
identity and communalism. (15 Marks, 250 Words)
UPSC Mains Indian Society- 2022
1) Explore and evaluate the impact of ‘Work From Home’ on
family relationships.(10 Marks, 150 Words)
2) How is the growth of Tier 2 cities related to the rise
of a new middle class with an emphasis on the culture of consumption?
(10 Marks, 150 Words)
3) Given the diversities among tribal communities in
India, in which specific contexts should they be considered as a single category? (10 Marks, 150
Words)
4) Analyse the salience of ‘sect’ in Indian society
vis-a-vis caste, region and religion.(15 Marks, 250 Words)
5) Are tolerance, assimilation and pluralism the key
elements in the making of an Indian form of secularism? Justify your answer.
(15 Marks, 250 Words)
UPSC Mains Indian Society- 2021
1) Examine the uniqueness of tribal knowledge system when
compared with mainstream knowledge and cultural systems. (10 Marks, 150 Words)
2) Examine the role of ‘Gig Economy’ in the process of
empowerment of women in India.(10 Marks, 150 Words)
3) What are the main socio-economic implications arising
out of the development of IT industries in major cities of India? (10 Marks, 150 Words)
4) Discuss the main objectives of Population Education
and point out the measures to achieve them in India in detail.
(15 Marks, 250 Words)
5) What is Cryptocurrency? How does it affect global
society? Has it been affecting Indian society also? (15 Marks, 250 Words)
6) How does Indian society maintain continuity in
traditional social values? Enumerate the changes taking place in it.
(15 Marks, 250 Words)
UPSC Mains Indian Society- 2020
1) Has caste lost its relevance in understanding the
multi-cultural Indian Society? Elaborate your answer with illustrations.
(10 Marks, 150 Words)
2) COVID-19 pandemic accelerated class inequalities and
poverty in India. Comment.(10 Marks, 150 Words)
3) Do you agree that regionalism in India appears to be a
consequence of rising cultural assertiveness? Argue.(10 Marks, 150 Words)
4) Is diversity and pluralism in India under threat due
to globalisation? Justify your answer. (15 Marks, 250 Words)
5) Customs and traditions suppress reason leading to
obscurantism. Do you agree? (15 Marks, 250 Words)
6) How have digital initiatives in India contributed to
the functioning of the education system in the country? Elaborate your answer.
(15 Marks, 250 Words)
UPSC Mains Indian Society- 2019
1) Are we losing our local identity for the global
identity?
Discuss(15 Marks, 250 Words)
2) Empowering women is the key to control population
growth”.
Discuss(10 Marks, 150 Words)
3) What are the continued challenges for women in India
against time and space?(15 Marks, 250 Words)
4) What makes Indian society unique in sustaining its
culture?
Discuss(10 Marks, 150 Words)
5) What are the challenges to our cultural practices in
the name of secularism?(10 Marks, 150 Words)
6) Do we have cultural pockets of small India all over
the nation? Elaborate with examples(15 Marks, 250 Words)
UPSC Mains Indian Society- 2018
1) ‘Women’s movement in India has not addressed the
issues of women of lower social strata.’ Substantiate your view.
(15 Marks, 250 Words)
2) ‘Globalization is generally said to promote cultural
homogenization but due to this cultural specificities appear to be strengthened in the Indian
Society.’ Elucidate.(15 Marks, 250 Words)
3)‘Communalism arises either due to power struggle or
relative deprivation’. Argue by giving suitable illustrations.
(15 Marks, 250 Words)
4) “Caste system is assuming new identities and
associational forms. Hence the caste system cannot be eradicated in India.”
Comment.(10 Marks, 150 Words)
5) ‘Despite the implementation of various programmes for
eradication of poverty by the government in India, poverty is still existing’. Explain by giving
reasons(10 Marks, 150 Words)
6) How the Indian concept of secularism is different from
the western model of secularism? Discuss(10 Marks, 150 Words)
UPSC Mains Indian Society- 2017
1) The spirit of tolerance and love is not only an
interesting feature of Indian society from very early times, but it is also playing an important
part at the present. Elaborate.(15 Marks, 250 Words)
2) Distinguish between religiousness/religiosity and
communalism giving one example of how the former has got transformed into the latter in
independent India.(15 Marks, 250 Words)
3) In the context of the diversity of India, can it be
said that the regions form cultural units rather than the States? Give reasons with examples for
your viewpoint.(10 Marks, 150 Words)
4) What are the two major legal initiatives by the State
since Independence addressing discrimination against Scheduled Tribes
(STs)?(10 Marks, 150 Words)
UPSC Mains Indian Society- 2016
1) What is the basis of regionalism? Is it that unequal
distribution of benefits of development on regional basis eventually promotes regionalism?
Substantiate your answer.
(12.5 Marks, 200 Words)
2) To what extent globalisation has influenced the core
of cultural diversity in India? Explain(12.5 Marks, 200 Words)
3) “An essential condition to eradicate poverty is to
liberate the poor from the process of deprivation.” Substantiate this statement with suitable
examples.(12.5 Marks, 200 Words)
4) Why are the tribals in India referred to as ‘the
Scheduled Tribes’? Indicate the major provisions enshrined in the Constitution of India for
their upliftment.(12.5 Marks, 200 Words)
UPSC Mains Indian Society- 2015
1) Discuss the changes in the trends of labour migration
within and outside India in the last four decades.(12.5 Marks, 200 Words)
2) Discuss the positive and negative effects of
globalization on women in India.(12.5 Marks, 200 Words)
3) Debate the issue of whether and how contemporary
movements for assertion of Dalit identity work towards annihilation of caste.
(12.5 Marks, 200 Words)
4) Describe any four cultural elements of diversity in
India and rate their relative significance in building a national identity
(12.5 Marks, 200 Words)
5) Critically examine whether growing population is the
cause of poverty OR poverty is the main cause of population increase in
India.(12.5 Marks, 200 Words)
6) How do you explain the statistics that show that the
sex ratio in Tribes in India is more favourable to women than the sex ratio among Scheduled
Castes?(12.5 Marks, 200 Words)
UPSC Mains Indian Society- 2014
1) Discuss the various economic and socio-cultural forces
that are driving increasing feminization of agriculture in India.
(12.5 Marks, 200 Words)
2) How do the Indian debates on secularism differ from
the debates in the West?(12.5 Marks, 200 Words)
3) How does patriarchy impact the position of a middle
class working woman in India?(12.5 Marks, 200 Words)
4) Why do some of the most prosperous regions of India
have an adverse sex ratio for women? Give your arguments.
(12.5 Marks, 200 Words)
5) The life cycle of a joint family depends on economic
factors rather than social values. Discuss.
(12.5 Marks, 200 Words)
UPSC Mains Indian Society- 2013
1) Critically examine the effect of globalization on the
aged population in India(10 Marks, 200 Words)
2) Growing feeling of regionalism is an important factor
in generation of demand for a separate State.Discuss
(10 Marks, 200 Words)
3) Discuss the various social problems which originated
out of the speedy process of urbanization in India.
(10 Marks, 200 Words)
4) “Male membership needs to be encouraged in order to
make women’s organization free from gender bias.” Comment
(10 Marks, 200 Words)
