The democratic process of social transformation has to be consensual and reconciliatory in nature. This alone ensures social mobility, diffusion of economic and cultural privileges and resource in society contributing ultimately to emergence of a socialist, democratic and just society. As suggested by the name of the title, this book deals with basic elements of social movements, with some case studies in the Indian context. Following are the contents - Introduction; Basic Perception; Youth Movements; Women's Movements; Backward Class Movements of Reform (Karnataka); Movements (Punjab); Movements of Reform (Karnataka); Movements of Peasants (Telangana); Movements of Peasants (Uttar Pradesh); and Tribal Movements; etc.
