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Write short note: Backward Classes Movement.

  • UPSC 2006
  • Social Movements in Modern India

The Backward Classes movement is the mobilisation of the intermediate cultivating and artisan castes — today the Other Backward Classes — against Brahmanical ritual dominance and upper-caste monopoly of education, administration and office. It must be kept distinct from the Dalit movement: the backward classes were never untouchable, were usually landholding, and sought a larger…

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