Rise of Popular Movements

Question

Check the picture given below and answer the questions that follow :

See the picture given below and answer the questions that follow :
(i) What does the above picture show ?
(ii) Describe the main features of the developmental project in the Narmada Valley.

(i) What the above picture shows?

(ii) What were the main features of the developmental project in the Narmada Valley?

Answer

(i) The above picture shows a boat rally organised by Narmada Bachao Aandolan.

(ii)The main features were:  (a) The developmental project in the Narmada Valley consisted of 30 big dams, 135 medium sized and around 3,000 small dams to be constructed on the Narmada and its tributaries.

(b) Sardar Sarovar Project in Gujarat and the Narmada Sagar Project in Madhya Pradesh were multipurpose dams planned under the project.

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Some More Questions From Rise of Popular Movements Chapter

Read the passage and answer questions below :

.....nearly all ‘new social movements have emerged as corrective to new maladies–environmental degradation, violation of the status of women, destruction of tribal cultures and the undermining of human rights-none of which are in and by themselves transformative of the social order. They are in that way quite different from revolutionary ideologies of the past. But their weakness lies in their being so heavily fragmented......................a large part of the space occupied by the new social movements seem to be suffering from ..various characteristics which Have prevented them from being relevant to the truly oppressed and the poor in the form of a solid unified movement of the people. They are too fragmented, reactive, ad hocish, providing no comprehensive framework of basic social change. Their being anti-this or that (anti-West, anti-capitalist, anti-development, etc.) does not make them any more coherent, any more relevant to oppressed and peripheralised communities. —Rajni Kothari

(a) What is the difference between new social movements and revolutionary ideologies ?

(b) What according to the author are the limitations of social movements ?

(c) If social movements address specific issues, would you say that they are ‘fragmented’ or that they are more focused ? Give reasons for your answer by giving examples.

Which novel tactic was used for protest by women in the Chipko Movement and why?

Where the Chipko Movement had taken place ?

Explain the reason of Chipko Movement.

Name the three major cities where the trade union movement was strong in the post-independence period.

Which parties had organised massive agitations of peasants in Telanagana and what was their main demand ?

Describe the causes for the rise of non-party movements.

Which political party did Dalit Panther support?

Explain the ideological agenda of Dalit Panthers.

Which organisation took over Dalit Panther?