The volume is a collection of articles on both conventional and new social movements of India and the subcontinent published in the Sociological Bulletin from the 1970s to the present. The essays have been divided into four sections. The first section deals with the conceptual and theoretical issues of social movements. The second section articulates the issues of agrarian unrest, mobilisation and movements in India. The third section focuses on movements of dalits, adivasis and minorities of India and the subcontinent. The fourth section relates to empirical accounts of contemporary environmental movements in India. INDICE: Series NoteForeword - Partha Nath MukherjiPreface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction - D R SahuI: CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICALSocial Movement and Social Change: Towards a Conceptual Clarification and Theoretical Framework - Partha Nath MukherjiSociological Issues in the Analysis of Social Movements in Independent India - T K OommenMovements of Protest, Construction of Centres and State Formation in India and Europe - S N Eisenstadt and Harriet HartmanII: AGRARIANAgrarian Social Structure and Peasant Unrest: A Study of Land-grab Movement in District Basti, East U.P. - Rajendra SinghTraditional Institutions and Cultural Practices vis-à-vis Agrarian Mobilisation: The Case of Bhartiya Kisan Union - Gaurang R SahayPolitics of Class (ness) in the Farmers’ Movement in India: Validity of the New Social Movement Paradigm - Vibha AroraIII: ADIVASIS/MINORITIESThe Janajati/Adivasi Movement in Nepal: Myths and Realities of Indigeneity - Gérard ToffinSocial Origins of the Sri Lankan Tamils’ Militant Movement - Chitra SivakumarIV: ENVIRONMENTParks, People and Protest: The Mediating Role of Environmental Action Groups - Ranjit DwivediGlobal Discourses and Local Mobilisations: The Case of ‘Barh Mukti Abhiyan’ - Manish K ThakurRevisiting the Baliraja Dam Struggle: A Study of an Environmental Movement in Maharashtra - Satyapriya RoutIndex
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