Thinker
Yogendra Singh
Yogendra Singh is central to 21 previous-year questions, spanning 2010 to 2025 across Paper I and Paper II. Everything below is drawn from the official papers — the questions themselves, the concepts they test, and where they sit in the syllabus.
21Questions
2010–25Years tested
I & IIPaper
5Syllabus topics
Concepts asked alongside Yogendra Singh
What the examiner actually wants you to know when this name appears.
little and great tradition 6modernisation 5orthogenetic and heterogenetic change 5sanskritisation 5modernisation of tradition 4westernisation 4sanskritisation and westernisation 3secularisation 3structural and cultural change 3structural change 3structural differentiation 3tradition 3adaptive change 2continuity and change 2modernization 2multiple modernities 2positional change 2social mobility 2
Where Yogendra Singh appears in the syllabus
Every question on Yogendra Singh
Each links to a full breakdown — how to approach it, a model answer, and the examiner’s perspective.
2025
2023
2022
2021
2017
2015
- Discuss the paradigm of modernization of Indian tradition in analyzing social change in India.
- Examine the dialectical relation between tradition and modernity in the study of social change.
- How far Srinivas’ Sanskritization is modernizing force or traditionalizing force in understanding the changes in caste system?
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