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Write short notes with a sociological perspective: Dynamics of Contemporary Dalit movements.

  • UPSC 2014, 2009
  • Social Movements in Modern India

"Dynamics" asks not what Dalit movements demand but what is changing within them — their arenas, leadership, repertoires and internal fault lines. Ghanshyam Shah (Social Movements in India, 1990) insists there is no single Dalit movement; contemporary Dalit politics is best read as a field in motion along five axes.

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  • From social reform to state power and back to society
  • From village to campus, city and screen
  • Law as the new arena
  • Internal differentiation
  • The alliance dilemma
  • Assessment
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