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‘The 73rd and the 74th constitutional amendments have motivated social mobilisation in rural India.’ – Discuss.

  • UPSC 2004
  • Politics and Society in India

The amendments created not only institutions but roughly three million elected offices with reserved access, and an office is a resource around which groups organise. The question is whether that produced real social mobilisation — collective action by excluded groups — or only a change in who occupies the chair.

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  • New entrants and the arithmetic of village power
  • From presence to voice: the evidence for mobilisation
  • Mobilisation provokes counter-mobilisation
  • The counter-evidence: representation without authority
  • Conclusion

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