New Farmers' Movements in India
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New Farmers' Movements in India

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

New Farmers' Movements in India

About this book

The essays in this collection focus on the reasons for and background to the emergence during the 1980s of the new farmers' movements in India. In addition to a more general consideration of the economic, political and theoretical dimensions of this development, there are case studies which cover the farmer's movements in Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Karnataka.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780714641348
eBook ISBN
9781135203214

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction: The New Farmers’ Movements in India
  9. The Politics of Gender, Nature and Nation in the Discourse of the New Farmers’ Movements
  10. The Class Character and Politics of the Farmers’ Movement in Maharashtra during the 1980s
  11. New Farmers’ Movements in India as Structural Response and Collective Identity Formation: The Cases of the Shetkari Sanghatana and the BKU
  12. ‘We Want the Return for Our Sweat’: The New Peasant Movement in India and the Formation of a National Agricultural Policy
  13. Shifting Ground: Hindutva Politics and the Farmers’ Movement in Uttar Pradesh
  14. The Farmers’ Movement and Agrarian Change in the Green Revolution Belt of North-west India
  15. ‘Khadi Curtain’, ‘Weak Capitalism’ and ‘Operation Ryot‘: Some Ambiguities in Farmers’ Discourse, Karnataka and Maharashtra 1980–93
  16. The Farmers’ Movements: A Critique of Conservative Rural Coalitions
  17. Post-Script: Populism, Peasants and Intellectuals, or What’s Left of the Future?
  18. Abstracts

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