Synopsis This book provides the much-needed evaluation and reorientation of the public and professional communitys commonsense or uncritically adopted conceptions of the Indian society and also directs our attention to the gaps in the sociology of the India.Focussing on key ideas and issues of Indian social system such as that of tradition and modernity class and caste agrarian and urban social system, industrialisation and globalisation and socio political and economic movement the author culls out the simplistic and often misinformed ways in which the larger public construes and relates to such issues. Chastising Indian society for failing to engage with key issues such as poverty class and caste-based reservations and to respond to the multiple crises that beset the nation, he notes how these issues are complicated by the processes of identity formations the functioning of institutions and globalisation. This book is strictly written according to the latest syllabus of B.A. M.A. and UPSC.