Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
Discuss the role of various reform movements in India.
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- Social Movements in Modern India
A reform movement, in M. S. A. Rao's usage, mobilises collectively to change parts of the social order without repudiating the order itself. India's nineteenth-century movements — Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Parsi and non-Brahman — were of this kind. A. R. Desai (Social Background of Indian Nationalism, 1948) read them as the ideology of a new…
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- Remaking religion and authority
- Legislating a new status for women
- Education as the principal instrument
- Reform from below: the anti-caste current
- Reform across communities
- A critical assessment
- …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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