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Describe the factors related to social movements. In the light of these factors explain the emergence of peasant movements in India.
- UPSC 1997
- Social Movements in Modern India
A social movement is sustained collective action, with some organisation and a shared ideology, directed at bringing about or resisting social change. Sociology explains its emergence not by grievance alone — grievance is near-constant — but by a combination of strain, perception, resources, opportunity and meaning. Indian peasant movements follow exactly this combination.
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