{"id":1391,"date":"2026-08-09T19:11:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/examine-the-nature-of-the-civil-liberty-movement-in-india-upsc-psir-2020-2604\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:25","slug":"examine-the-nature-of-the-civil-liberty-movement-in-india-upsc-psir-2020-2604","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/examine-the-nature-of-the-civil-liberty-movement-in-india-upsc-psir-2020-2604\/","title":{"rendered":"Examine the nature of the civil liberty movement in India."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">GB Civil liberty movement defends individual freedom, equality before law and rule of law against routes an arbitrary state.. read its nature through origin, method and limits. | R2 | Open from colonial roots \u2192 demands born of press curbs, racial discrimination, detention a State-facing struggle from the start.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Colonial resistance (press restrictions, racial discrimination in courts, Rowlatt Act, detention. eee \u00a7=6without trial) Nilanjan Dutta, 19th-century demands ~. freedom struggle as a mass civil liberties movement.. Ambedkar links liberty to anti-caste struggle + minority protection \u2192 post- independence lull \u2192 Naxalite repression + Emergency 1975 revive it \u2192 Jayaprakash Narayan \u2192 PUCL &amp; DR, 1976 -. split: liberal court-oriented wing \/ Marxist grassroots wing \u2192 dual character \u00bb methods (courts, PIL under Bhagwati, fact-finding, constitutional language, protest) &#8211; widening concerns (speech, detention, prison reform, tribal rights, displacement, privacy, information).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Nandita Haksar \u2192 movement bounded by nationalist discourse \u2192 zero tolerance towards view terrorism becomes zero tolerance towards activism.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">| R1 That tension defines its nature \u2192 remains relevant amid surveillance, preventive detention routes and sedition-type laws. | R2 | Not one moment but a continuing struggle.. pluralin method and concern, state-facing throughout.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[41],"pyq_marks":[35],"pyq_topic":[67],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-1391","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-41","pyq_marks-15-marks","pyq_topic-social-movements","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1391\/revisions\/2614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}