“Wither the people's movements in India?” The case of National alliance of people's movement

In order to survive social movements must categorically maintain their autonomy from the established institutional and ideological structures if they are to give their own alternative paradigm. And they also need to maintain, a dialectical balance between its urge to institutionalise and radicalize. An in-depth analysis of a movement's structural organising, networking/alliance building, ideological framing allows us to have an in-sight into the movement's capacity to maintain its autonomy, which allows for its survival and success. This paper tries to analyse the same in the context of National Alliance of People's movement. It is more of a descriptive documentation of the movement and its trajectory.