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POWER 50 is fifty capsules across fifty days — the whole PSIR syllabus revised once, in the order the syllabus is actually built, one topic a day. Read the capsule, write the same day, don’t break the chain. Running alongside it are PSIR Dynamics 2026 and the PYQ Vault, which carries 560 previous-year questions across the fifty days — roughly eleven a day.
Day 26 — Social Movements in India
Day 26 is the closing capsule of Paper I and one of the densest units in the syllabus. It opens with what a social movement is and the social-versus-political distinction, then works through the anatomy of movements — types, paths and components — and the four theories: relative deprivation, resource mobilisation, political process and new social movements. The bulk of the capsule is India’s own movements: the environmental struggles (Chipko, Narmada Bachao Andolan, Silent Valley, Tuticorin, environmentalism of the poor, and the Constitution–environment link); civil liberties and human rights; the Dalit movement and Ambedkar’s “Educate, Agitate and Organize”; the women’s movement from the reform phase through the anti-arrack agitation to #MeToo; and the labour and LGBTQ+ movements. Along the way it fixes the scholars UPSC keeps returning to — from Tilly and McAdam on what a movement is, to Guha on the “environmentalism of the poor” and Ambedkar on rights and civil liberty. It closes with a scholar index, the power quotes and the full PYQ map. The listed PYQs on this unit — a heuristic, not official weightage — come to 3 × 10-markers, 4 × 15-markers and 1 × 20-marker.
Write before the evening:
- Discuss the role of environmental movements in shaping the environmental governance in India. (UPSC 2024, 20m)
- Examine the nature of the civil liberty movement in India. (UPSC 2020, 15m)
- Dr. Ambedkar’s clarion call, “Educate, Agitate and Organize”, strategizes the Dalit movement towards achieving civil liberty. Discuss. (UPSC 2023, 15m)
- Comment on women’s role in anti-arrack movement. (UPSC 2024, 10m)
If you go blank on a point, it is covered in full in the Foundation and OGP class notes and handouts — revise it, then write.
