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Write short note: Revivalist social movements in India.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Social Movements in Modern India

A revivalist movement seeks change by returning to an idealised indigenous past: the charter for reform is drawn from within the tradition, and the present is read as a corruption of an authentic original. It is thus distinguished not by its goals — which may be strikingly progressive — but by its source of legitimation.

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  • Revivalist, reformist, revitalization
  • Indian instances
  • The ambivalence of revivalism
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