• ISBN13: 9788132116264
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Publisher Imprint: SAGE India
• Publication Date: January 1, 2013
• Pages: 320
• Original Price: INR 995.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 554 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Sociology / General

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, mobilization 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.

Table of Contents:

• Series Note
• Foreword
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Introduction

• Social Movement and Social Change: Towards a Conceptual Clarification and Theoretical Framework
• Sociological Issues in the Analysis of Social Movements in Independent India
• Movements of Protest, Construction of Centers and State Formation in India and Europe

• Agrarian Social Structure and Peasant Unrest: A Study of Land-grab Movement in District Basti, East U.P.
• Traditional Institutions and Cultural Practices vis-à-vis Agrarian Mobilization: The Case of Bhartiya Kisan Union
• Politics of Class (ness) in the Farmers’ Movement in India: Validity of the New Social Movement Paradigm

• The Janajati/Adivasi Movement in Nepal: Myths and Realities of Indigeneity
• Social Origins of the Sri Lankan Tamils' Militant Movement

• Parks, People and Protest: The Mediating Role of Environmental Action Groups
• Global Discourses and Local Mobilizations: The Case of 'Barh Mukti Abhiyan'
• Revisiting the Baliraja Dam Struggle: A Study of an Environmental Movement in Maharashtra
• Index