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Write short note with a sociological perspective: Stages of the Women’s movement in India.

  • UPSC 2011
  • Social Movements in Modern India

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Sociologically the Indian women's movement is best read as a shift in who speaks: from reform about women, to women speaking for women, to a contest over who the collective "we" includes.

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  • Stage one — social reform (c. 1820–1900)
  • Stage two — nationalist mobilisation (1900–1947)
  • Stage three — accommodation (1947–early 1970s)
  • Stage four — the autonomous women's movement (1975–1980s)
  • Stage five — fragmentation and institutionalisation (1990s onwards)
  • Conclusion
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