The term social movements ''covers vairous forms of collective action aimed at social recorganization''. In generally social movements are not highly instiutionaliged and arise from spontaneous social protest directed at specific or widespread grievances. ''A social movement is a deliberate collective endeavour to promote change in any direction and by any means not excluding violence, illegatity, revolution or withdrawl into 'utopian' community -----A social movement must evince a minimum degree of organization though this may range from a loose informal or portial level of organization to the highly institutionalized or bureaucratized movement and the corporate group -----According to MC Adam it all (1988) in (Veena Das (ed) 2003:1525). The term 'social movements' refers to a diverse spectrum of collective social and political phenomena as heterogeneoul as revolutions religious sects political organizations or single-issue campaigns or anti-colonial resistance and resistance against in roads by alleged 'outsiders'.
The salient features of social movements are;
1 .Initiation of one or the kind of commonly agreed upon activity according to some formulated or chalked out plan as per decided programme shedule.
2. Some kind of reference to ideas of autonomy,equity,human right,social recorgnization, removel of social evil, etc.
3. Various kinds of manifestations such as revolt, rebellion and employment of method likes protest, demonstration, strike, gheroo, bounds etc.
4. Unstable and transitory nature and non-visibility of any distinct point of beginning or termination of social movements.
5. Awareness of and commitment and devotion to the common cause and some kinds of organization for launching collective action through mobilization of like-minded people's efforts.
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