{"id":1394,"date":"2026-08-09T19:11:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/comment-on-womens-role-in-anti-arrack-movement-upsc-psir-2024-2607\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:54:28","slug":"comment-on-womens-role-in-anti-arrack-movement-upsc-psir-2024-2607","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/comment-on-womens-role-in-anti-arrack-movement-upsc-psir-2024-2607\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment on Women\u2019s role in anti-arrack movement."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>\u2014 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\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> Locate: AP, early 1990s, a rural women\u2019s uprising <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> born in Dubagunta, Nellore from the National Literacy Campaign <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> women name arrack <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> women as central actors, private grievance <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> public struggle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> Open on agency: unlettered rural women, no political experience <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> move household suffering into political action <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> force the state to act <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> the \u201ccomment\u201d weighs the significance of that leadership.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p>Literacy-campaign origin <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> women link alcohol to domestic violence \/ financial ruin \/ social breakdown <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> forms of action (marches, picketing, night patrols, sit-ins, processions, brewing material destroyed, fines) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> opponents: liquor contractors + the state\u2019s Varun Vahini <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> feminist reading: <b class=\"pq-sc\">Tharu &amp; Lalitha<\/b> (patriarchy at home + in public) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Mazumdar<\/b> (rural women changing policy = a turning point) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> \u2018the personal is the political\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p>Weigh the mismatch: inexperienced, unlettered rural women vs powerful liquor contractors + the state\u2019s own Varun Vahini patronage <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> that ordinary women overturned this nexus is what makes their role significant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> Outcome: CM <b class=\"pq-sc\">Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy<\/b> bans arrack, 1 Oct 1993 <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> women without formal power reshaped state policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> Close on scale: one of the largest women-led agitations against the state <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> women as agents of grassroots democracy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[30],"pyq_marks":[38],"pyq_topic":[67],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-1394","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-30","pyq_marks-10-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\/1394","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":4,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4806,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1394\/revisions\/4806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}