Agrarian sociology

By Prof .C Ganesh | Arts College Osmania University Department of sociology

Learners enrolled: 601

Given below are the objectives of the course

⦁ To understand the social, economic and power structure of Rural Indian society

⦁ To examine the changing trends in Indian villages

⦁ To analyze the rural development, strategies, policies and programmes.

⦁ To analyze the various social and economic issues persisting in Indian society.

⦁ To understand the methods and approaches for the study of rural development in India

Summary

Course Status :	Upcoming
Course Type :	Core
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	15 weeks
Category :	Sociology
Credit Points :	5
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	07 Jul 2025
End Date :	31 Oct 2025
Enrollment Ends :	31 Aug 2025
Exam Date :	12 Dec 2025 IST
NCrF Level	5.5
Industry Details :	Government, public service
Exam shift :	I

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Books and references

A.R. Desai (2005) Rural India in Transition, 2nd ed Popular Prakashan Mumbai

S.C Dube (1955) Indian Village Cornell University Press, Ithaca.

Singh Kartar (1999) Rural Development in India Sage Publications.

S.L. Doshi, (1999) Rural Sociology, Rawat Publishers

Instructor bio

Prof .C Ganesh

Arts College Osmania University Department of sociology

Prof C. Ganesh is the coordinator for this

course. He is a senior professor in the

Department of sociology teaching Rural

Sociology and Rural Development for

the past three decades. He has also

published number of articles in the field

of rural development. He has delivered

many lectures in National level

institutions in the field of rural

development. He was the

Director, Centre for Distance Education

in Osmania University. As a Director of

the centre he has the experience of

developing new online courses and

producing the quality material for

various courses offered by Osmania

university through distance mode. Presently he is Principal of University college for Arts and Social Sciences, Osmania University , Hyderabad. He is engaged with developing

MOOCs courses for Sociology for

under-graduate courses

Course certificate

- Internal Assessment- Weekly assessments released in the course shall be considered for Internal Marks and will carry 30 percent for the Overall Result. Out of all weekly assignments, the best/top five scores will be considered for the final Internal Assessment marks.

- End-term Assessment - The final exam shall be conducted by NTA, and will carry 70 percent for the overall Result.

- All students who obtain 40% marks in the internal assessment and 40% marks in the end-term proctored exam separately will be eligible for the SWAYAM Credit Certificate.

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