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Examine the nature of, the civil liberty movement in India.

  • UPSC 2020
  • 15 marks
  • Social Movements

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Civil liberties are the rights a civilised existence needs: life, personal liberty, speech, association, fair trial and freedom from arbitrary arrest. A civil liberty movement is collective action to defend them. In India it asks the state to stop doing something rather than to provide something. Examined closely, it is reactive, middle-class, non-party, legalistic and…

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  • Roots Older Than the Republic
  • Born of Crisis: The 1970s
  • Five Features
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