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1. According to Paul Wilkinson, Concept of Social Movements means a a deliberate collective endevour to promote change in any direction and by any means not excluding violence, illegality, revolution or withdrawal into utopian Community.
2. Ghanshyam Shah classifies movements as revolt, rebellion, reforms and revolution to bring about changes in the political system. According to Parth Mukherji, social movements are accumulative, alternative and transformatory in nature.
3. In the view of T.K. Oommen, movements are charismatic, ideological and organisational.
4. Some other classify movements on the basis of the participants such as Peasants, tribals, dalits, women, backwards, students etc. Many other Movements that are based on issues transcending the barriers of class have been termed as New Social movements.
In the case of India one can find examples belonging to the above mentioned typology. Some of the prominent ones are discussed in the following section.