Indi Social, And Social Movements In India

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The Indian society has been divided since centuries in terms of caste, ethnicity, religion, caste, language, and religion. There are deep -seated economic and social inequalities in the society. The history of India is full of social movements launched against the structural and cultural barriers, which prevented people from moving up or in their desired directions. Social movements generally aim at achieving an egali¬tarian social structure. However, there are also counter-social movements, which resist such efforts and do whatever is possible to maintain the status quo. Social movements can be defined as a collective effort to transform some established sets of social relations. Movements are never a continuous phenomenon as they are directed against some very specific unbearable aspects or functioning of society under the direction of a significant segment of the population. In India we have witnessed movements by women, students, people belonging to backward classes and these groups have acquired special significance in the post independence period as during colonization these people were deprived of the basic rights and have remained non beneficiaries of the gains of …show more content…

Yogendra Singh (1978) writes: “Social movement is a process of collective mobilization of people in a society in an organized manner under an individual or collective leadership in order to realize an ideologically defined social

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