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What led to the Caste Movements in Western and Southern India? How did they affect the local socio-political life?

  • UPSC 1989
  • Rise of Gandhi and the Gandhian Era

The caste movements that emerged in western and southern India from the late nineteenth century onward were rooted in the specific social structure of these regions, where a numerically small Brahmin elite held disproportionate control over land, education and colonial administration — a configuration colonial modernity intensified rather than dissolved.

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  • Causes of the Caste Movements
  • Structural Dominance of Brahmins in Western India
  • Colonial Modernity as Catalyst
  • Regional Trajectories
  • Effects on Local Socio-Political Life
  • Conclusion

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