Important topics for the Indian Society for UPSC 2023

Topics for Indian Society

• Salient features of Indian Society
  • Hattis Area
  • Santhals
• Diversity of India
• Population and associated issues

• The role of women and women’s organizations
• Effects of globalization on Indian society
• Poverty and developmental issues

• Social empowerment
  • Jeevan Shala
• Communalism, regionalism & secularism
• Urbanization

* Salient features of Indian Society

> Hattis Community

Why is it in NEWS?

• The demand for ‘tribal’ status for Himachal’s Trans-Giri and its Hatti community
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Who are Hattis?

• The Hattis are a close-knit community that takes their name from their traditional occupation of selling home-grown crops, vegetables, meat, and wool at small-town markets known as ‘haats’.
• Hatti men traditionally don distinctive white headgear on ceremonial occasions.

Hatti Area

> Santhals Community

Why is it in NEWS?

• Droupadi Murmu is elected as the first Tribal president and second women President of India.

• Hailing from Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district and coming from a tribal community

Who are Santhals?

• Santhal is the third largest scheduled tribe community in the country after Gond and Bhil spread across Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal.
• Santhals speak Santhali which has its own script called ‘OL chiki’which has been included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution.

Indian Tribes

Diversity of India

Population and associated issue

The role of women and women's organization

Effects of globalization on Indian society

Poverty and developmental issues

* Social empowerment

> Jeevan Shala - School initiative by Tribal population

Why is it in NEWS?

• Bhil community in  Maharashtra opened up schools called “Jeevan Shala” for their children.

What is Jeevan Shala?

• The students attending the schools are educated not just in regular subjects but also about water, forests and land.
• They are introduced to all the herbs found in the forest as well as edible tubers.
• They are informed about their uses and consumption.

Shaala Sangwari

• The ‘Shaala Sangwari’ project in Chhattisgarh’s Kabirdham district aims to employ educated Baiga tribal youth by making them teach their community’s children in primary and middle schools.

Communalism, regionalism & secularism

Urbanization, their problems, and their remedies.

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