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Write short note: Caste mobilisation in North India.

  • UPSC 2004
  • Social Movements in Modern India

Caste mobilisation in the north came late and arrived through the state rather than through social reform. Where the south had an anti-Brahmin movement from the early twentieth century that captured power by the 1960s, the north's transfer of power to the lower castes belongs to the 1990s — which is why Christophe Jaffrelot (India's…

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  • The backward-class track
  • Parties and leaders
  • The present phase
  • Conclusion

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