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Are social movements primordial in means and progressive in agenda? Explain.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Politics and Society

The proposition splits a movement's vehicle from its destination. "Primordial", in the sense given by Edward Shils (1957) and Clifford Geertz ("The Integrative Revolution", 1963), refers to attachments of birth, blood, language, region and custom that carry an ineffable coercive force. A "progressive agenda" means modern, universalist goals: equality, rights, redistribution, dignity. In India the…

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