New IGNOU MHI-106 Help Book Evolution of Social Structures in India through the Ages in English – MAHI (New) History Latest Edition Guide and Study Material.

Block 1 – Introductory
Reconstructing Ancient Society with Special Reference to Sources
Hunting-Gathering, Early Farming Society, Pastoralism
Harappan Civilization and Other Chalcolithic Cultures

Block 2 – Cultures in Transition
Societies Represented in Vedic Literature
Iron Age Cultures
Socio-Religious Ferment in North India: Buddhism and Jainism
Emergence of Buddhist Central and Peninsular India

Block 3 – Early Historic Societies: 6th Century BC to 4th Century AD
Urban Classes: Traders and Artisans, Extension of Agricultural Settlements
Chaityas, Viharas and their Interaction with Tribal Groups
Early Tamil Society — Regions and their Cultures and Cult of Hero Worship
Marriage and Family Life, Notions of Untouchability, Changing Patterns in Varna and Jati

Block 4 – Early Medieval Societies
Transition to Early Medieval Societies
The Problem of Urban Decline: Agrarian Expansion, Land Grants and Growth of Intermediaries
Proliferation and Consolidation of Castes and Jatis
Religion in Society

Block 5 – Medieval Society-1: Historiography of the Rural Society
Village Community
Rural Society: North India
Rural Society: Peninsular India

Block 6 – Medieval Society-2
Clans and Confederacies in Western India
Urban Social Groups in North India
Changing Social Structure in Peninsular India
Socio Religious Movements
The Eighteenth Century Society in Transition

Block 7 – Modern Society
Perception of the Indian Social Structure by the Nationalists and Social Reformers
Studying Castes in the New Historical Context
Pattern of Rural-Urban Mobility: Overseas Migration
Social Structure in the Urban and Rural Areas

Block 8 – Social Questions Under Colonialism
Colonial Forest Policies and Criminal Tribes
Gender/Women Under Colonialism
Social Discrimination
Popular Protests and Social Structures
Studying Tribes Under Colonialism
Social Structures in the Northeast India during the Colonial Period