Social Movements provides direction for examining social movements in India from a sociological point of view. The book seeks to cover important social movements in India like the peasant movement, the Dalit and backward class movement, the tribal movement, the women’s movement, the working-class movement, and the environment movement. Divided into ten chapters, the book also attempts to explain the theoretical perspective, including the types of movements. It deals with the entire spectrum of the issues of various movements, their causes, and consequences. 

In any society around the globe, movement is an inherent phenomenon that is mainly due to the ‘dissatisfaction’ of the people with the system. Besides understanding this dissatisfaction in a scientific way, the book also tries to understand the collective actions, collective behaviour, and collective mobilization during the movement. In this regard, the book will be useful to students and researchers as well as all those who want to understand the nature of movements in India.

• Understanding Movements

• Typology of Social Movements

• Social Movement and Social Change

• Peasant Movements

• Tribal Movements

• Dalit Movements

• Working-Class Movements in India

• Women’s Movements in India

• Environmental Movements

• Social Reform Movements in India

Vidyut Joshi is Emeritus Professor at Chimanbhai Patel Institute of Management and Research, Ahmedabad. He is also working as Hon. Director of Institute for Equity and Development, Gujarat Vidyapith, Ahmedabad. After teaching at college and university levels for twelve years, he joined Centre for Social Studies, Surat (1980–1984) and Mahatma Gandhi Labour Institute, Ahmedabad (1984–2000). He became Vice-Chancellor of MK Bhavnagar University (1995–1998). He was also Director of Centre for Social Studies (2000–2003) and was Emeritus Professor at Gujarat Vidyapith (2010–2013) and Nirma University (2013–2014). Professor Joshi has 33 books, 30 research reports, over 100 research papers and articles and over 3,000 newspaper columns to his credit. He was a research consultant to GoI, GoG, World Bank, ILO, UNESCO, Shell and Cairn. For his significant contribution in the field of sociology and anthropology, Lifetime Achievement Award was conferred on him by Indian Sociological Society in 2021.

Rushiraj Upadhyay is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Bhakta Kavi Narsinh Mehta University, Junagarh, Gujarat. He has also served in the Department of Social Work, Gujarat University. He is the recipient of the R.K. Mukherjee Young Social Scientist Award of the Indian Social Science Association in the year 2014. He has published 18 research papers in various national and international journals. He has also worked as a freelance writer in various Gujarati newspapers and educational magazines.