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Rise Of Popular Movements

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Explain the methods adopted by Narmada Bachao Aandolan in support of its demands. What were its effects?

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The following methods were adopted by Narmada Bachao Aandolan :

(i) Appeals to judiciary;

(ii) Mobilisation of support at the international level;

(iii) Public rallies including boat rallies;

(iv)Revival of forms of satyagraha like Jalsamadhi i.e., protesting in rising waters.

Effects : (i) The movement could not garner much support among the mainstream political parties -including the opposition parties. It depicted a gradual process of disjunction between political parties and social movements in Indian politics.

(ii) By the end of the nineties, the NBA has become a larger alliance of people’s movement that is challenging the large scale developmental projects in different regions of the country.

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.....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 ?

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