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What is new in ‘new social movements’? Elaborate your answer with special reference to India.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Politics and Society

The label new social movements (NSM) was coined in Western Europe in the 1970s and 1980s for a wave of feminist, ecological, peace and sexual-minority mobilisations that did not fit the Marxist template of class struggle. Their novelty lies in who mobilises, for what, against whom and how. In India the form travels well; the…

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  • Five things that are new
  • With special reference to India
  • What is not new
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