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Anthropological Thought: Classical evolutionism
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James Fraser and Historical Particularism
Diffusionism : (BRITISH)
Unit 6 PAPER -1
Unit 6 PAPER -1
Unit 6 PAPER -1
Anthropological Thought: Introduction, Classical
evolutionism (E.B Tylor)
TOPICS
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Unit 6 PAPER -1

TOPICS
Structural functionalism and Structuralism
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Functionalism
Diffusionism : ( AMERICAN), GERMAN)
Functionalism and Structural Functionalism
Unit 6 PAPER -1
Unit 6 PAPER -1
Unit 6 PAPER -1
Live Doubt Clearing session
Structuralism
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TOPICS
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Unit 6 PAPER -1
Unit 6 PAPER -1
Neo Evolutionism & Culture Personality School
Neo-Evolutionism
Culture Personality School
Unit 6 PAPER -1
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Classical evolutionism to Neo
Evolutionism
Timing :10:00 AM to 01:00 PM
TEST-1
TEST 1 DISCUSSION
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Symbol and Interpretative theories
Cognitive theories & Post Modernism
PYQ’s of Anthropological thought and Culture, Language and
Communication: Nature, origin and characteristics of language; verbal
and non-verbal communication; social contex of language use.
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Unit 6 PAPER -1
Unit 7 PAPER -1
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TOPICS
Unit 8 PAPER -1
CONTINUE OF Field Work traditions in
Anthropology
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20 Unit 8 PAPER -1 A) Field work traditions in anthropology
19 Linguistic Studies
Unit 7 PAPER -1

Unit 8: Research methods in Anthropology and Unit 6.2 Tribal India :
Land alienation, poverty, indebtedness, low literacy, poor educational
facilities, unemployment, under-employment, health and nutrition..
Unit 6.2 Tribal Problems : Land alienation, poverty, indebtedness,
low literacy, poor educational facilities, unemployment, under-
employment, health and nutrition.
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Unit 8 PAPER 1 &
Unit 6.2 PAPER 2
Unit 6.2 PAPER 2
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24
TOPICS
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25
Unit 6.3 PAPER 2
Unit 6.3 PAPER 2
Tribal Displacement continue
Developmental projects and their impact on tribal displacement and
problems of rehabilitation. Development of forest policy and tribals.
Impact of urbanisation and industrialization on tribal populations.
22

Bio-genetic variability, linguistic and socio-economic
characteristics of the tribal populations and their distribution
Bio-genetic variability, linguistic and socio-economic
characteristics of the tribal populations and their
distribution Continued
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Complete Anthropological Thought
Module paper-1 (units 6,7,8)
Unit 6.1 PAPER 2
Unit 6.1 PAPER 2
Unit 6.3 PAPER 2 Tribal Displacement continue
TEST - 2
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TEST 2 DISCUSSION
31 Unit 6.1 PAPER 2 Tribal Classification
28

TOPICS
Social change and contemporary tribal societies : Impact of modern
democratic institutions, development programmes and welfare
measures on tribals and weaker sections.
7.2 PESA,FRA and 7.3 Ethnicity
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Unit 7.2 PAPER 2
Unit 7.2 & 7.3 paper 2
Unit 7.3 PAPER 2
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33 Unit 7.1 PAPER 2
Problems of exploitation and deprivation of Scheduled Castes,
Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes. Constitutional
safeguards for Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes.
Unit 7.1 PAPER 2 Problems of exploitation and deprivation of Scheduled Castes,
Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes. Constitutional
safeguards for Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes. Continued
The concept of ethnicity; Ethnic conflicts and political developments;
Unrest among tribal communities;
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TOPICS
Unit 9.1 Impact of NGO’s on tribals and pvtg
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UNIT 9.1 PAPER 2
Unit 8.1, 8.2 PAPER 2
8.1 Impact of Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and
other religions on tribal societies. & 8.2 Tribe Nation
StateTribe Nation State
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Unit 8.1 PAPER 2
Unit 7.3 PAPER 2
Impact of Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and other
religions on tribal societies.
Regionalism and demand for autonomy; Pseudo-tribalism. Social
change among the tribes during colonial and post-Independent
India.
Unit 6,7 paper - 2
TEST-3
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44 Unit 9.1 and 9.2 Tribal development plans
TEST 3 DISCUSSION
45 Unit 9.2 , 9.3 PAPER 2
9.2 Role of anthropology in tribal and rural development.
9.3 Contributions of anthropology to the understanding of regionalism,
communalism and ethnic and political movements
TOPICS
46 UNIT 9.3 PAPER 2
9.3Contributions of anthropology to the understanding of
regionalism, communalism and ethnic and political movements and
Naxalism Paper 2
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Indian village studies: Significane of village study in India; Indian
village as a social system; Traditional and changing patterns of
settlement and inter-caste relations;
Unit 5.1 PAPER 2
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Agrarian relations in Indian villages; Impact of
globalization on Indian villages.
Linguistic and religious minorities and their social, political
and economic status
Timings :10:00 AM to 01:00 PM
Unit 5.1 PAPER 2
Unit 5.2 PAPER 2
UNIT 6,7,8,9 PAPER 2
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TEST-4
TEST 3 DISCUSSION
TOPICS
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Unit 5.3 PAPER 2
Unit 5.2 , 5.3 PAPER 2
Indigenous and exogenous processes of socio-cultural change in Indian society:
Sanskritization, Westernization, Modernization; Inter-play of little and great
traditions; Panchayati Raj and social change; Media and Social change.
5.2 Linguistic Minorities and 5.3 Sanskritization
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Hindu Social System
Caste system in India— Structure and characteristics Varna and caste,
Theories of origin of caste system, Dominant caste, Caste mobility, Future of
caste system, Jajmani system. Tribe-case continuum.
Caste system in India— Structure and characteristics Varna and caste, Theories
of origin of caste system, Dominant caste, Caste mobility, Future of caste system,
Jajmani system. Tribe-case continuum. Continued
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Unit 3.1 PAPER 2
Unit 3.2 PAPER 2
Unit 3.2 PAPER 2
Unit 5.3 Continued & 3.1 The structure and nature of traditional
Indian social system—Varnashram, Purushartha, Karma, Rina
and Rebirth
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59 Unit 3.2 PAPER 2
Caste system in India— Structure and characteristics Varna and caste,
Theories of origin of caste system, Dominant caste, Caste mobility,
Future of caste system, Jajmani system. Tribe-case continuum.
Continued
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TOPICS
Emergence, growth and development in India— Contributions of the 18th, 19th
and early 20th Century scholar-administrators. Contributions of Indian
anthropologists to tribal and caste studies.
4. Emergence, growth and development in India— Contributions of the 18th, 19th and
early 20th Century scholar-administrators. Contributions of Indian anthropologists to
tribal and caste studies. & 2. Demographic profile of India—Ethnic and linguistic
elements in the Indian population and their distribution.
2. Demographic profile of India—Ethnic and linguistic
elements in the Indian population and their distribution.
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Unit 4 paper 2
Unit 4 , 2 PAPER 2
Unit 2 PAPER 2
Unit 3.4 , 4 Paper 2
3.4. Impact of Buddhism, Jainism, Islam and Christianity of Indian society.
4. Emergence, growth and development in India— Contributions of the 18th, 19th and early
20th Century scholar-administrators. Contributions of Indian anthropologists to tribal and
caste studies.
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60 Unit 3.3 PAPER 2 Sacred Complex and Nature-Man-Spirit Complex.
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TEST-5 Units 5,3 PAPER 2 Timing :10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
TOPICS
2.1The Nature of Culture : The concept and Characteristics of culture and
civilization; Ethnocentrism vis-a-vis cultural Relativism & 2.2The Nature of
Society : Concept of Society; Society and Culture; Social Institution; Social
groups; and Social stratification
UNIT 2.1 PAPER 1
The Nature of Culture : The concept and Characteristics of
culture and civilization; Ethnocentrism vis-a-vis cultural
Relativism
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68 Unit 2 PAPER 2
UNIT 2 PAPER 1
Demographic profile of India—Ethnic and linguistic elements in the Indian
population and their distribution. Introduction to Social-cultural Anthropology
Units 2,3,4,5 of Paper 1.
UNIT 2.1 PAPER 1
TEST 5 DISCUSSION
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Unit 2 Demographic profile of India — Ethnic classification of
the Indian population and their distribution
Marriage : Definition and universality; Laws of marriage (endogamy,
exogamy, hypergamy, hypogamy, incest taboo); Type of marriage
(monogamy, polygamy, polyandry, group marriage). Functions of marriage;
Unit 2.3 PAPER 1
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73 Unit 2.3 , 2.4 PAPER 1
2.3 Marriage & 2.4 Family : Definition and universality; Family, household and
domestic groups; functions of family; Types of family (from the perspectives of
structure, blood relation, marriage, residence and succession)
TOPICS
2.4 Family : Definition and universality; Family, household and domestic groups;
functions of family; Types of family (from the perspectives of structure, blood
relation, marriage, residence and succession) CONTINUE
75 Unit 2.4 PAPER 1
2.4 Family : Definition and universality; Family, household and domestic
groups; functions of family; Types of family (from the perspectives of structure,
blood relation, marriage, residence and succession)
76 Unit 2.4 PAPER 1
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Kinship : Consanguinity and Affinity; Principles and types of descent (Unilineal, Double, Bilateral
Ambilineal); Forms of descent groups (lineage, clan, phratry, moiety and kindred); Kinship
terminology (descriptive and classificatory); Descent, Filiation and Complimentary
Filiation;Decent and Alliance.
Kinship : Consanguinity and Affinity; Principles and types of descent (Unilineal, Double,
Bilateral Ambilineal); Forms of descent groups (lineage, clan, phratry, moiety and kindred);
Kinship terminology (descriptive and classificatory); Descent, Filiation and Complimentary
Filiation;Decent and Alliance.CONTINUE
Unit 2.5 PAPER 1
Unit 2.5 PAPER 1
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81 Unit 3 PAPER 1
Economic Organization : Meaning, scope and relevance of economic anthropology; Formalist and
Substantivist debate; Principles governing production, distribution and exchange (reciprocity, redistribution
and market), in communities, subsisting on hunting and gathering, fishing, swiddening, pastoralism,
horticulture, and agriculture; globalization and indigenous economic systems.
TEST-6 paper-2 units 2 ,3,4,5 Timing :10:00 AM to 01:00 PM
TEST 6 DISCUSSION
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TOPICS
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Unit 5 PAPER 1 Religion : Anthropological approaches to the study of religion (evolutionary,
psychological and functional); monotheism and polytheism; sacred and profane;
myths and rituals; forms of religion in tribal and peasant Societies
82 Unit 4 PAPER 1
Political Organization and Social Control : Band, tribe, chiefdom, kingdom
and state; concepts of power, authority and legitimacy; social control, law and
justice in simple Societies.
Paper 1 Units 2,3,4,5 Timings 10:00am to 01:00 pm
TEST- 7
TEST 7 DISCUSSION
1.7 The biological basis of Life : The Cell, DNA structure and
replication, Protein Synthesis, Gene, Mutation, Chromosomes,
and Cell Division
Unit 1.7 PAPER 1
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TOPICS
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Unit 9.3 PAPER 1
Unit 9.2 PAPER 1
9.3 Concept of genetic polymorphism and selection, Mendelian population, Hardy-Weinberg law;
causes and changes which bring down frequency-mutation, isolation, migration, selection,
inbreeding and genetic drift. Consanguineous and non-consanguineous mating, genetic load,
genetic effect of consanguineous and cousin marriages.
9.2 Mendelian genetics in man-family study, single factor,
multifactor, lethal, sub-lethal and polygenic inheritance in
man
Human Genetics : Methods and Application : Methods for study of genetic principles in man-
family study (pedigree analysis, twin study, foster child, co-twin method, cytogenetic method,
chromosomal and karyo-type analysis), biochemical methods, immunological methods, D.N.A.
technology and recombinant technologies.
Units 9.1 PAPER 1
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1.7 The biological basis of Life : The Cell, DNA structure and
replication, Protein Synthesis, Gene, Mutation, Chromosomes, and
Cell Division CONTINUATION
Unit 1.7 PAPER 1
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9.4 Chromosomes and chromosomal aberrations in man,
methodology.
92 Unit 9.4 PAPER 1
91

TOPICS
Unit 9.8 paper 1
9.8 Epidemiological Anthropology : Health and disease. Infectious
and non-infectious diseases, Nutritional deficiency related diseases.
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96 Unit 9.7 paper 1
Unit 9.6 paper 1
9.7 Concepts and methods of Ecological Anthropology : Bio-cultural
Adaptations—Genetic and Non-genetic factors. Man’s physiological
responses to environmental stresses: hot desert, cold, high altitude climate.
9.6 Age, sex and population variation as genetic marker : ABO, Rh blood
groups, HLA Hp, transferring, Gm, blood enzymes. Physiological
characteristics-Hb level, body fat, pulse rate, respiratory functions and sensory
perceptions in different cultural and socio-ecomomic groups.
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9.5 Race and racism, biological basis of morphological variation of non-metric and
characters. Racial criteria, racial traits in relation to heredity and environment;
biological basis of racial classification, racial differentiation and race crossing in
man. CONTINUATION
Unit 9.5 PAPER 1
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9.5 Race and racism, biological basis of morphological variation of non-metric and
characters. Racial criteria, racial traits in relation to heredity and environment;
biological basis of racial classification, racial differentiation and race crossing in
man.
Unit 9.5 PAPER 1
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Unit 11 PAPER 1
11.2 Demographic theories-biological, social and cultural.
11.3 Biological and socio-ecological factors influencing
fecundity, fertility, natality and mortality
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11.1 Relevance of menarche, menopause and other bioevents to
fertility. Fertility patterns and differentials.
Unit 11 PAPER 1
102
UNIT 10 PAPER 1
101
Concept of human growth and Development : Stages of growth—pre-
natal, natal, infant, childhood, adolescence, maturity, senescence.
CONTINUATION
Concept of human growth and Development : Stages of growth—
pre-natal, natal, infant, childhood, adolescence, maturity,
senescence.
Unit 10 PAPER 1
100
TEST 8 DISCUSSION
Timing 10:00am to 01: 00 pm
Unit 1.7, 9.1, 9.8 paper 1
TEST-8
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TEST 9 DISCUSSION
TEST-9 UNIT1.7, 9, 10, 11, 12 PAPER 1 Timings 10:00am to 01:00pm
Applications of Anthropology : Anthropology of sports, Nutritional anthropology,
Anthropology in designing of defence and other equipments, Forensic Anthropology,
Methods and principles of personal identification and reconstruction, Applied human
genetics CONTINUATION
106 Unit 12 PAPER 1
Unit 12 PAPER 1
genetics CONTINUATION
105
TOPICS
104 Unit 12 PAPER 1
genetics—Paternity diagnosis, genetic counselling and eugenics CONTINUATION
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108

Unit 1.3 PAPER 1
Main branches of Anthropology, their scope and relevance
(a) Social-cultural Anthropology. (b) Biological Anthropology. (c)
Archaeological Anthropology. (d) Linguistic Anthropology
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1.1 Meaning, Scope and development of Anthropology.&
1.2 Relationships with other disciplines
109
UNIT 1.4 PAPER 1
Human Evolution and emergence of Man:
(a) Biological and Cultural factors in human evolution. (b) Theories of Organic
Evolution (Pre-Darwinian, Darwinian and Post-Darwinian). (c) Synthetic theory of
evolution; CONTINUATION
112
TOPICS
Unit 1.4 PAPER 1
Human Evolution and emergence of Man:
(a) Biological and Cultural factors in human evolution. (b) Theories
of Organic Evolution (Pre-Darwinian, Darwinian and Post-
Darwinian). (c) Synthetic theory of evolution;
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117 UNIT 1.6 PAPER 1
Phylogenetic status, characteristics and geographical distribution of the following :
(a) Plio-preleistocene hominids in South and East Africa Australopithecines. (b) Homo erectus :
Africa (Paranthropus), Europe (Homo erectus (heidelbergensis), Asia (Homo erectus javanicus,
Homo erectus pekinensis. (c) Neanderthal man—La-chapelle-aux-saints (Classical type), Mt.
Carmel (Progressive type). (d) Rhodesian man. (e) Homo saoiens—Cromagnon, Grimaldi and
Chancelede.
Phylogenetic status, characteristics and geographical distribution of the following :
(a) Plio-preleistocene hominids in South and East Africa Australopithecines. (b) Homo erectus :
Africa (Paranthropus), Europe (Homo erectus (heidelbergensis), Asia (Homo erectus javanicus,
Homo erectus pekinensis. (c) Neanderthal man—La-chapelle-aux-saints (Classical type), Mt.
Carmel (Progressive type). (d) Rhodesian man. (e) Homo saoiens—Cromagnon, Grimaldi and
Chancelede.
UNIT 1.6 PAPER 1
116
Characteristics of Primates; Evolutionary Trend and Primate Taxonomy; Primate
Adaptations; (Arboreal and Terrestrial) Primate Taxonomy; Primate Behaviour;
Tertiary and Quaternary fossil primates CONTINUATION
115 Unit 1.5 PAPER 1
Characteristics of Primates; Evolutionary Trend and Primate Taxonomy; Primate
Adaptations; (Arboreal and Terrestrial) Primate Taxonomy; Primate Behaviour;
Tertiary and Quaternary fossil primates
Unit 1.5 PAPER 1
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119 Unit 1.8 (B) PAPER 1 (b) Cultural Evolution—Broad Outlines of Prehistoric cultures
TOPICS
118 Unit 1.8 (A) PAPER 1 (a) Principles of Prehistoric Archaeology. Chronology :
Relative and Absolute Dating methods.

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Unit 1.2 Paper 2
Unit 1.2 PAPER 2
Palaeo—Anthropological evidences from India with special
reference to Siwaliks and Narmada basin (Ramapithecus,
Sivapithecus and Narmada Man). CONTINUATION
Palaeo—Anthropological evidences from India with special
reference to Siwaliks and Narmada basin (Ramapithecus,
Sivapithecus and Narmada Man).
Evolution of the Indian Culture and Civilization- Prehistoric (Palaeolithic, Mesolithic,
Neolithic and Neolithic-Chalcolithic), Protohistoric (Indus Civilization). Pre-Harappan,
Harappan and post- Harappan cultures. Contributions of the tribal cultures to Indian
civilization.
Unit 1.1 PAPER 2
122
(b) Cultural Evolution—Broad Outlines of Prehistoric
cultures CONTINUATION
Unit 1.8 (C) PAPER 1
120
TOPICS
125 Units 1.3 PAPER 2
1.3. Ethno-archaeology in India: The concept of ethno-archaeology; Survivals
and Parallels among the hunting, foraging, fishing, pastoral and peasant
communities including arts and crafts producing communities.
121

TOPICS
TEST-12 Paper-2 comprehensive test Timing 10:00am to 01:00pm
TEST-11
TEST-10
Paper-1 comprehensive test
Unit- 1 of paper-1
Unit-1 of paper -2
Timing 10:00am to 01:00pm
Timing 10:00am to 01:00pm
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TEST 11 DISCUSSION
TEST 10 DISCUSSION
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