Rethinking Social Movement Studies from India
The sociology of social movements developed as a field in the second half of the twentieth century in the Western academic world. In the 1960s, this subfield of sociology was very popular worldwide, including in India. In fact, the sociology of social movements arose at the time of decolonisation around the world. Is it an accident that the rise and success of anti-colonial movements and the rise in the popularity of the sociology of social movements coincided? I...