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GENERAL STUDIES project

EVILS
IN INDIAN SOCIRTY

Name: SHUBHAM
SINGH
Class: XII-A
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This project was very innovative and
exciting

for

me.

could

bring

it

out

successfully and so I am thankful to a couple


of people.
First of all I am highly obliged to my
Dilruba Kalsi Maam,

who approved me for

this topic and guided me throughout.

CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that this project is submitted by
Shubham Singh student of class XII in the
academic year 2015-16 of Cambridge School and
given satisfactory account of it. I have examined the
project and hereby accord my approval of it as a study
carried out and presented in the manner required
for its acceptance. This does not necessarily endorse
or

accept

every statement

made

or

opinion

expressed or conclusion drawn, but only signifies


the acceptance of the project for the purpose it is
submitted for.

INTRODUCTION
Indian society is one of the oldest societies. It has got its own customs
and traditions. Some of them are very old. They do not suit the present
times. Times go on changing. We must also change our customs and
traditions to keep pace with the times. Some of our customs are not
only useless but are also obstacles in the way of social progress. It is,
therefore, essential that they must be changed. The older must change
giving place to the new; I will introduce the following social reforms, if
ever I become the minister of social welfare.

Our marriage customs must be reformed, Child-marriage and early


marriage have no place in social life today. Boys and girls must be
given some say in the selection of their partners. I will pass a law
which make dowry hunting a legal offence. I will allow no business in
the form of marriage, as this is a great social curse. This will be my
first reform.
Now-a-days we do not get the necessities of life in pure condition.
Milk, ghee, butter, oil, etc. all are sold adulterated. Not only food
stuffs, but medicines, toilet goods and their articles also are mixed
with inferior and cheaper substances. This amounts to the cheating of
the people. This is a social crime. I will make all possible efforts to
curb this nefarious trade. The people will be ensured the supply of
pure and unadulterated goods.

In our society, drinking is becoming common. There is also drug


addiction on a large scale. Then evil effects of such habits are too well

known to need any discussion. Society must be saved from this social
curse. I will educate the people against these evils as well as pass laws
against them. When I become the minister for social welfare, this
social reform will receive my urgent attention.
Man and woman are the two wheels of the social cart. Both of them
must be equally strong. But in our society women are illiterate. They
are kept in purdah. They are denied their due rights. Illiteracy is most
wide-spread among women. I will pay special attention towards
female education. This will remove many evils from society. Purdah
will come to an end. Women will become equal partners with men in
the work of the development of the country.
Untouchability is a curse. We treat a large section of our people, as if
they were animals. I will do my utmost to eradicate this social evil.
Public opinion shall be educated against it. The condition of the
untouchables shall be improved.
Food prices have been raising for sometime past, one of the main
causes of this is the hoarding of food grains. There is acute shortage of
a number of essential commodities. To earn huge profits, businessmen
hoard the necessities of life. This causes great hardship to the people. I
will introduce legislation to check hoarding with the greatest zeal and
effort. Hoarders, black marketers and profiteers would be severely
dealt with.
These are but the most important of the social reforms which have
been long overdue. Besides these, there are many other social evils like
child labour, gambling, wastage of food etc., on the occasion of

marriages and other social ceremonies etc. I will introduce reform in


these spheres also.

Social reforms are urgently needed. There can be no two opinions


about this. Others have also made efforts in this direction. But the
results have not been very encouraging. I will give top priority to social
reforms. Effective laws will be framed. Public opinion will be created
in support of these reforms. Administration will be made strict. Then
alone will success be achieved.
Note: This essay can also be used for the topics like:
The social evils and superstitions that had crept in the society over the
centuries made social reforms imperative for the development of the

society and the masses. In the 19th century, the newly educated
persons increasingly revolted against rigid social conventions and
outdated customs. They could no longer tolerate irrational and dehumanising social practices. Moreover, the backward features of
Indian society, such as the caste system or inequality of the sexes had
religious sanctions in the past. Therefore, it was necessary to reform
religious practices as well.
The condition of women was pathetic. The various religions practised
in India as well as the personal laws based on them consigned women
to a status inferior to that of men. Polygamy, Purdah system, sort, ban
on widow remarriage, no education for female child, female
infanticide, child marriages were some of the evils that had vicelike
grip over the society. It thus became necessary to take the women out
of this degraded position and help her to realise her true potential. The
problems of female feoticide, sexual harassment at workplace,
education are so diverse that they need sound financial backing, all
these social evils centre around the petty and marginalized conditions
of women in the society. We need to combat evils like the glorification
of sati places as pilgrimages, dowry system, girl feoticide, decline in
sex ratio, harassment of women etc. This can be achieved by educating
the woman and making her financially independent.
Rajasthan has been in the news recently and for all the wrong reasons.
First, it was tigers disappearing, then it was a guidebook that referred
to sati-sites as tourist destinations, and then it was child marriages.
The legal age for marriage in India is 18 years for women and 21 years
for men. Any marriage of a person younger than this is banned in

India under the Child Marriage Prevention Act of 1929. But child
marriages still take place in India; particularly around the Hindu holy
day of Akshya Tritiya (also knows as Akha Teej). Yet, it is a religious
tradition in many places in India and therefore, difficult to change.
People feel that traditions are valuable and should not be changed,
especially religious traditions, since changing these would amount to
asking people not to practise their religion, a fundamental principle of
democracy.
Dowry in India, the practice of endowing the groom by the brides
family, is a tradition, which has changed its intentions from giving a
gift to demanding for astronomical amounts which has bankrupted
lots of families and made many girls either to commit suicide or being
murdered. Bride-price, which is the endowment to the brides clan,
which is widely practised in Papua New Guinea, too, has changed from
the earlier intentions thereby making it a business.
Moral and ethical concerns of the society weigh a great deal with those
in public life as their behaviour is keenly watched by the people. At
concerned quarters, views are being expressed over the general decline
of values in public life. There is a general feeling that all is not well
with our socio-political system which is functioning under a great
strain. In such a situation, the representatives of the people have to set
high standards of behaviour in public life. Members of Parliament
have not only to represent the society but have also to lead it.
Therefore, they have to function as the role models and this naturally
casts on them a heavy responsibility. Our freedom fighters and
national leaders had set high ethical and moral standards in public life
and they followed those principles scrupulously. This tendency, it is

painfully observed, is now on a decline. There has been a wide and


critical collapse of moral values in all walks of life and a perilous
decline in the human dimension in global, political and trade relations
and national economy. Development has culminated in widespread
discontent, corruption, unemployment, violence, communal and racial
discord and much human distress, destruction and disillusionment.

Barring this, the caste system, which had its roots in religion, is
another curse in society. Though not so rigid in urban areas, it is still
practised in rural areas with the same zeal. Caste determines mans
marriage, social circle and profession. The untouchables suffer from
numerous disabilities and restrictions. His dresses, food, place of
residence, all are degraded. Not only is it humiliating and inhuman
and based on anti-democratic principle of inequality by birth, it is a
cause of social disintegration. Thus, it has to be fought against.
Another problem that our society faces is the rapid criminalisation of
the polity, that could be the result of the fact that criminals have
understood the mechanics of the electoral process and have

themselves become contenders for power. Earlier, politicians


patronised criminals and provided them protection from the lawenforcement agencies in exchange for the use of their muscle power
during elections. And now it is the opposite-with the criminals
themselves taking over the reigns of power and patronising the
politicians and their parties. Of late, there is an increasing exposure of
the criminals in the! Governing system of the country, to the extent
that it alienates the common people for power. The criminalisation of
politics is a reflection of, and a factor that aggravates the crisis of the
political system. Only a qualitative change that transforms the system
from its very roots can resolve this crisis in favour of the people.
In the rural economy, both unemployment and under employment
exist side by side and the distinction between them is by no means
sharp. In the rural areas, increasing population implies an increasing
pressure on land. This pressure on land has resulted in an increase in
the number of agriculturists, and this has largely contributed to the
problem of unutilised labour or disguised unemployment in the
agricultural sector. A large labour force accumulates around primary
occupations. A general in elasticity of occupational structure prevents
any large movement away from these in periods of slack demand. This
leads to seasonal unemployment also. In short, the major feature of
rural unemployment is the existence of unemployment in the form of
disguised unemployment and seasonal unemployment rather than
open unemployment that exists in the urban areas.
Idol worship, superstitions, Brahmanical or clergy superiority, all had
to be fought against, for all the social practices finding sanction in

religion. Yet a lot needs to be done to eradicate from the shreds a


number of social evils still haunting our society.

PERSONAL VIEW
Dowry system is also a great concern of this society. in this cultured India
educated people are more responsible for increasing this system. today's
realty is that a governed person demand for costly cars and all goods in his
marriage. if a educated person directly demands for dowry then it is a great
same for education. government should be implement the dowry laws
strictly so that this concern would be decrease.
We must adopt these things in our personal life because we are human
beings only then it will we possible to remove these evils from our precious
society.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
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