Thinker

Walter Fernandes

Walter Fernandes is central to 11 previous-year questions, spanning 2010 to 2025 across Paper I and Paper II. Everything below is drawn from the official papers — the questions themselves, the concepts they test, and where they sit in the syllabus.

11Questions
201025Years tested
I & IIPaper
5Syllabus topics

Concepts asked alongside Walter Fernandes

What the examiner actually wants you to know when this name appears.

development-induced displacement 6impoverishment risks 3agrarian distress 2development induced displacement 2displacement and rehabilitation 2marginalisation 2accumulation by dispossessionalienation of landcommon property resourcescommons and community rightscultural dislocationcumulative inequalitydisplacementdisplacement and dispossessionecological degradationecological marxismgrowth versus equitygrowth without equity

Where Walter Fernandes appears in the syllabus

  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India4
  • Challenges of Social Transformation3
  • 10. Social Change in Modern Society2
  • Social Movements in Modern India1
  • Tribal Communities in India1

Every question on Walter Fernandes

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