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Differentiate between issue-specific movements and generic movements. Give an example of an issue-specific movement and explain.

Answer:

Issue-specific Movements:

(i) They achieve a single objective within a limited time frame.

(ii) There is clear leadership.

(iii) They have some organisation.

(iv) Their active life is usually short.

Generic Movements:

(i) These movements are of long-term duration.

(ii) They have independent leadership.

(iii) There is no single organisation that controls or guides such movements.

(iv) Example: Environmental movement or the Women's movement.

Issue-specific Movement: The Narmada Bachao Andolan In India, Narmada Bachao Andolan is a good example of this kind of movement.

(i) The movement started with the specific issue of the people displaced by the creation of Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river.

(ii) Its objective was to stop the dam from being constructed.

(iii) Gradually, it became a wider movement that questioned all such big dams and the model of development that required such dams.

(iv) Movements of this kind tend to have a clear leadership and some organisation. But their active life is usually short.