Dont try to make too much sociological perspective in general answers....

write general answer

itself....

To introduce sociological perspective, keep following things in mind:

1) You can think of various paradigms like functionalism, marxism, feminism, subutlernism etc. 
2) Think about the relations with other social structure like religion, family, gender, power etc. 
3) Always try to talk about groups and not individual persons or governments. It will automatically
introduce sociological perspective. For example, impact of religion. it leads to fundamentalism, sects,
cults, etc. You should not write about any particular person like Osama or any particular baba etc
even in examples.
4) Sociology always focuses on social change. So, if you can bring about issue of social change in
your answer, it would introduce sociological perspective.
5) Sociology has special place for soical movements. If you can associate any phenomena with
some social movement, it will help.
6) Last but not the least, try to include thinkers. But then, dont try too much.

SC Dube: Indian society

Paper I
1) Emergence of socio: Ignou BA (only source which makes sense)
2)Positivism and methods: Blue Haralambos
3) Thinkers: First Ignou and then Blue Haralambos (Ritzer confuses me. Not apt for UPSC, though a
very insightful analysis)
4) Relation with other disciplines: MP's dictation (read once and make short notes)
5) family: IGNOU, Blue Haralambos and Giddens
6) Power: Blue Haralambos
7) Stratification: Blue Haralambos (only upto half if that chapter and selected topics afterwards)
8) Religion: Blue Haralambos
9) Economic system: Orange Haralambos and Giddens
10) Social Movements: Giddens
11) Poverty and exclusion: Giddens
12) Social Change: IGNOU BA
For those topics which I dint find in these sources, I thought and made up the material for them. For
example: education and social change: include Durkheim, Parsons, Macaulay, fascist's use of
education, P bourdiex, and some part of blue Haralambos like Bowles and Gintis and Paul Willis. I
found this way of making up material as a very reflexive exercise which helped me in the exam this
year

Books for paper 2 are not quite up to the mark of what UPSC demands. So, I used MP's dictation for
these. Other useful sources according to me.
IGNOU BA: Ghurye, Caste, Tribe, Village, Industrial, Agrarian class structure, Middle classes,
Family and Kinship, popolation dynamics

Social Background of Indian Nationalism by Desai: Very good book for Marxist perspective. And
written in very simple language that i can be completed in 3-4 days
Modernisation of Indian tradition by Singh: Only first chapter.

MP's Notes: Other thinkers, caste, land reforms, land tenure, social movements in India, Classes in
India, Family, Power (other topics in this block), Green revolution, CDP, Cooperative movements
and other topics which I could not find anywhere

Neera Chandoke: Education, Secularism, Middle class, Social Movements

Veena Das: Informal Sector (book is good but it is written in a literature review way)

SC Dube: Indian society

Rest I have read but did not find their utility in terms of time invested: Ghanshyam Shah, AM Shah,
MN Srinivas, KL Sharma 

Again for all those topics which I did not find, I made up the material for them by thinking on the
works of related theorists. It does help. Try it.