Match List I with List II
| LIST-I | LIST-II | ||
| (A) | Weapons of the weak | (I) | Ramchandra Guha |
| (B) | The logic of collective Action | (II) | Mancur Olson |
| (C) | Reinventing Revolution | (III) | James Scott |
| (D) | Unquiet woods | (IV) | Gail Omvedt |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
(A) Weapons of the weak — this matches (III) James Scott.
(B) The logic of collective Action — this matches (II) Mancur Olson.
(C) Reinventing Revolution — this matches (IV) Gail Omvedt.
(D) Unquiet woods — this matches (I) Ramchandra Guha.
Note: The lines on James Scott’s Weapons of the Weak and Mancur Olson’s The Logic of Collective Action, in the part on theories of social movements, and on Gail Omvedt’s Reinventing Revolution, in the section on social movements in the Indian context, were there in the chapter ‘Social Movements’ of the pre-rationalised NCERT, which NTA followed in 2023. These portions have been deleted from the NCERT book (2025-26), though the chapter is still there with Ramachandra Guha’s Unquiet Woods.
NCERT (2025-26): “8.4 Ecological Movements … According to Ramachandra Guha in his book, Unquiet Woods, villagers rallied together to save the oak and rhododendron forests near their villages. When government forest contractors came to cut down the trees, villagers, including large number of women, stepped forward to hug the trees to prevent their being felled.…” NCERT (Pre-rationalised): “Theories of Social Movements … Mancur Olson’s book The Logic of Collective Action argues that a social movement is an aggregation of rational individual actors pursuing their self-interest. A person will join a social movement only if s/he will gain something from it. S/he will participate only if the risks are less than the gains.…” “…In his book Weapons of the Weak, James Scott analysed the lives of peasants and labourers in Malaysia. Protest against injustice took the form of small acts such as being deliberately slow. These kinds of acts have been defined as everyday acts of resistance.…” “Can We Apply the Distinction between Old and New Social Movements in the Indian Context? … Gail Omvedt in her book Reinventing Revolution points out that concerns about social inequality and the unequal distribution of resources continue to be important elements in these movements.…” |