PSIR Optional · Paper I · Section B: Indian Government and Politics
Social Movements Notes · PYQs · Solved Answers
Free notes, every previous year question and the solved answers for Social Movements (Paper I, Section B: Indian Government and Politics), arranged so you can read a topic and immediately see how UPSC has asked it. Syllabus: Civil liberties and human rights movements, women's movements, environmentalist movements.
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1993–2026
Years covered
25
Questions listed
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Paper I · Unit 11
Social Movements notes
Topic-wise notes for this unit in syllabus order. Read a topic, then open its previous year questions below.
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Previous year questions: Social Movements
Every question UPSC has asked from this unit, year-wise, with a link to its solved answer.
Topic-wise question list
Year-wise question papers
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UPSC PSIR Optional Question Paper 2026
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PSIR Optional Question Paper 2025
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PSIR Optional Question Paper 2024
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PSIR Optional Question Paper 2023
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PSIR Optional Question Paper 2022
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PSIR Optional Question Paper 2021
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PSIR Optional Question Paper 2020
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PSIR Optional Question Paper 2019
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PSIR Optional Question Paper 2018
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PSIR Optional Question Paper 2017
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PSIR Optional Question Paper 2016
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PSIR Optional Question Paper 2015
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PSIR Optional Question Paper 2014
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PSIR Optional Question Paper 2013
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Solved PYQ answers: Social Movements
Model answers to the previous year questions of this unit, newest exam year first.
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| Paper 1 notes — Political Theory + Indian Government and Politics | Included | Included — Section A and Section B |
| Paper 2 notes — Comparative Politics and India and the World | Included | Included — Section A and Section B |
| Topic-wise PYQ bank | 1986–2026, with trend analysis and probables by Dec 2026 | 1991–2025 question papers, free with every notes pack |
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Other units in Paper I · Section B: Indian Government and Politics
- Indian Nationalism
- Making of the Indian Constitution
- Salient Features of the Indian Constitution
- Principal Organs of Government
- Grassroots Democracy
- Statutory Institutions and Commissions
- Federalism
- Planning and Economic Development
- Caste, Religion and Ethnicity in Indian Politics
- Party System
Paper I · Section B: Indian Government and Politics — section overview · All PSIR Optional units