Indian Social Structure

The scheduled castes are officially designated groups of historically disadvantaged people in India.

BC- C (Backward castes C- category) are not considered backward class of India with 1% reservation at state level and at national level they come under other backward class.

Article 340 deals with the need, inter alia. Identify those "Socially and Educationally" backward classes, understand the condition of their backwardness and make recommendations to remove the difficulties they face.

Communal violence, Racial Violence and caste violence  instigate hatred and disturbance at widespread level. People participate in mass to show their vigour and power and to commit atrocities against another caste, group, religion to prove their superiority. These are example of mob violence wherein massive amount of people indulge in riots or violent acts and disturb public peace and security.

The agricultural society is a rural society where human beings left nomadic life and settled in a place engaging in agriculture. This society is a village-based society. Producing food through agriculture activities is the basic occupation of people here. These are less dense in population and developed in the means of infrastructure.

Urban societies are often described as ideal or modern societies in sociological discourse due to their complexity, infrastructure, and access to services.

Indian society is historically and sociologically characterized as patriarchal, where authority and lineage are traditionally traced through the male line.

Women in India face a lot of obstacles in their Social, Economic and Political life. This is also due to the feudal traditions and mindset of the people. The government is working towards measures for equality and is adopting various programs for the same.

Khonds are an ethnic indigenous tribal people of India. They are a designated Scheduled Tribe in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and West Bengal. Traditionally hunter-gatherers, they are divided into the hill-dwelling Khonds and plain-dwelling Khonds for census purposes; all the Khonds identify by their clan and usually hold large tracts of fertile land but still practise hunting, gathering and slash and burn agriculture in the forests as a symbol of their connection to and ownership of the forest. The Khonds speak the Kui language.

The Munda Tribe, residing in the Chota Nagpur Plateau in Jharkhand, adjacent parts of Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal and the hill districts of Odisha, is thought to have evolved from the South East Asia. Munda tribes are one of the largest Tribes of India, but have been divided into several sub groups such as Patar, Mahali, Kampat Munda, etc.

Baigas forest community of central India sent a petition against stopping of shifting cultivation in 1892 because the communities were forcibly displaced from their homes in the forests.

The Khonds are divided into clans like Hansa, Beck, Hembram, Bedia, etc. The Khond tribe originates from Odisha and is usually found in Bihar. They are mainly hunters who do collective hunting.

Today foreigner means a person who is not an Indian. In medieval period a foreigner was considered as someone who does not belong to that society or culture, a city-dweller or a forest-dweller.

Society became differentiated and people were grouped into jatis or sub-castes and ranked on the basis of their backgrounds and their occupations. Ranks were not fixed permanently and varied according to the power, influence and resource controlled by members of the jati. The status of the same jati could vary from area to area.

In the context of British colonial administration in India, the term Ryots refers to the peasants or cultivators who worked the land.