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Describe the changes due to social movements in the modern ideological society in India.

  • UPSC 2005
  • Politics and Society

A. R. Desai (Social Background of Indian Nationalism, 1948) treated the national movement as the master social movement that produced modern India. Since 1947 movements have remained the chief mechanism turning constitutional promises into social facts, and rewriting India's ideological landscape — the working stock of ideas about who is owed what.

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  • From patronage to rights
  • Caste: from stigma to claim
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