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Discuss the social bases of political mobilization in Independent India. Has some change occurred in these during the last 60-70 years?

  • UPSC 2025
  • 10 marks
  • Politics and Society in India

Political mobilization converts a social identity or interest into collective political action. India granted universal franchise before literacy, industry or social equality, so mobilization had to run through the identities that already organised society. Rajni Kothari's formulation still holds: politics needs caste as much as caste needs politics. Seventy years on, these bases have not…

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  • The principal social bases
  • Then and now
  • What has changed
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