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Trace the social and historical origins of Dalit movements in modern India.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Social Movements in Modern India

Dalit movements are not an ancient protest tradition suddenly made visible; they are a modern formation, produced when colonial administration, market forces and an egalitarian public language together loosened the ritual and economic grip that had made untouchability unchallengeable. Tracing them means tracing the conditions that made collective protest by the lowest castes both thinkable…

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  • The enabling conditions under colonial rule
  • The nineteenth-century beginnings
  • From reform to political rupture
  • The sociological reading
  • Conclusion

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