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Sociology is the study of society and India is the second largest populated country in the world with an immense variety in terms of class, caste, culture, language, religion, occupation, tradition and custom which are the chief interests of a sociological inquiry. From a predominantly agrarian society with a feudal outlook, with a population residing mostly in villages pursuing traditional occupations like weaving, pottery , brass smithy, black smithy, fishing, oil pressing, tanning, toddy tapping, butchery, stone cutting, carpentry, masonry, hunting, sheep and goat rearing and other such myriad occupations some of which are considered menial, India progressed into an industrial society with a vast