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What do you understand by social movement? How has the mobilization by Scheduled Castes helped them in constructing a new identity?

  • UPSC 2014
  • Politics and Society

A social movement is sustained collective mobilisation, carried by an ideology and directed at change. The second half of the question turns on Alberto Melucci's insight that a movement's deepest work is not winning demands but constructing a collective "we". Scheduled Caste mobilisation is the clearest Indian illustration of that claim.

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  • What a social movement is
  • How mobilisation built a new identity
  • The identity is real but contested
  • Conclusion

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