Karnataka PSC Syllabus
KPSC Mains Optional Paper - Anthropology
SECTION-I
Paper — I: Foundation of Anthropology:
SECTION-II
Foundations of the theory of organic evolution, Lamarckism, Darwinism and the synthetic theory; Human evolution, biological and cultural dimensions. Microevolution;
The Order Primate: A comparative study of Primates with special reference to the anthropoid apes and man.
Fossil evidence, for human evolution; Dryopithecus, Ramapithecus, Australopilecines, Homo erectus (Pithecanthroplines) Homosapiens, Neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens.
Genetics definition : The medelian principles and its application to human population. 5. Racial differentiation of Man and bails of racial classification morphological, serlological and genetic, Role of heredity and environment In the formation of races, 8. The effects of nutrition, Inbreeding and hybridization.
SECTION — III
Paper — II Indian Anthropology
Paleolithic, Mesolithic. Neolithic, Protohistoric (Indus civilization) dimensions of Indian culture. Distribution and racial and linguistic elements in Indian population. The basis of Indian social system, Verna, Ashram, Purusharatha, Caste, Joint Family. The growth of Indian anthropology, Distinctiveness of anthropological contribution In the study of tribal and peasant sections of the Indian population, The basic concepts used, Great tradition and little tradition; sacred complex Universalization and parochialization; Sanskriiization and Westernization; Dominant caste, Tribe-caste continuum, Nature-Man-Spirit complex. Ethnographic profiles of Indian tribes; racial linguistic and socioeconomic characteristic, Problems of tribal peoples, land-alienation, indebtedness, lack of educational facilities, shifting-cultivation, migration, forests and tribals unemployment, agricultural labour. Special problems of hunting and food-gathering and other minor tribes. The problems of culture-contact; impact of urbanization and industrialization depopulation, regionalism, economic and psychological frustrations. History of tribal administration, The constitutional safeguards for the Scheduled Tribes, Policies, Plans, programmes of tribal development and their implementations, the response of the tribal people to the Government measures for them, the different approaches to tribal problems, the role of anthropology in tribal development. The constitutional provisions regarding the scheduled castes, Social disabilities suffered by the Scheduled Castes and the socio-economic problems faced by them. Issues relating to national integration.
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