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This paper tries to examine the recent wave of protests in India, specifically the case against corruption and the Delhi rape case with the very diverse constituents mobilizing together for the common ethical demands (e.g., dignity and the demand for the basic obligations of the state). This paper tries to understand the unique convergence and the incidental coalescing of diverse sections of society with the motley of social and spiritual organizations lock-stepping and underpinning this assertion of the invisible multitude, thus substituting the previous actors of sociopolitical mobilization along with a major shift in the modus operandi and repertoire of the protest movement.
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“A Sanskrit word for majority now used for the disenfranchised and oppressed lower caste majority of Indians bahujans”.
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Public Ombudsman.
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Public Commissioner.
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Topi: An Indian white coned cap wore during the Indian independence movement.
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Lunch box carriers.
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Rajhans, S.K. (2017). The Multitudes of the Invisibles and the Revitalization of the Indian Democratic Space. In: Arbatli, E., Rosenberg, D. (eds) Non-Western Social Movements and Participatory Democracy. Societies and Political Orders in Transition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51454-3_5
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