POWER 50 is fifty capsules across fifty days \u2014 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 \u2014 roughly eleven a day.<\/p>\n
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 \u2014 types, paths and components \u2014 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\u2013environment 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 \u2014 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 \u2014 a heuristic, not official weightage \u2014 come to 3 \u00d7 10-markers, 4 \u00d7 15-markers and 1 \u00d7 20-marker.<\/p>\n
If you go blank on a point, it is covered in full in the Foundation and OGP class notes and handouts \u2014 revise it, then write.<\/p>\n
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