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Write short note: Protest movements.

  • UPSC 1993
  • Politics and Society

A protest movement is a sustained collective mobilisation whose characteristic mode of action is the public, extra-institutional expression of dissent against an authority — the state, an employer, a dominant caste. Protest is first a phase: dissatisfaction begins as dissent, hardens into protest and agitation when it is openly declared, and becomes a movement when…

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