"This book is both about social movements and collective actions, and about the discipline of sociology and prevailing concepts of Indian society. Presenting a

This volume attempts to show the emerging contours of ‘transformative action’ in social movements across South Asia. It argues that these contours have been

Social movements have played a vital role in Indian politics since well before the inception of India as a new nation in 1947. During the Nehruvian era, from In