New Farmers' Movements in India
Title | New Farmers' Movements in India PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Brass |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780714641348 |
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.
Populism and Power
Title | Populism and Power PDF eBook |
Author | D. N. Dhanagare |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2015-12-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 131733034X |
This book traces the entire trajectory of the farmers’ movement in Western India, especially Maharashtra, from the 1980s to the present day. It reveals the fundamental contradictions between populism as an ideology and as political power within the democratic state structure. The volume highlights the ideologies of the movement; its emergence in the wake of a perceived agrarian crisis; how it conflates economics and populism; the role of leadership; stages of development from grassroots agitations rooted in civil society to the attempts to create space within structures of democratic politics; the eventual formation of a separate political party and consequent implications. It maps the linkages between populist ideology and mass participation, and their contested successes and failures in the domain of electoral politics. Further, the author underlines the effectiveness of the movement in addressing class and gender equations in the region. Rich in primary archival sources and informed field studies, this book will interest scholars and researchers of agrarian economy, rural sociology, and politics, particularly those concerned with social movements in India.
New Farmers' Movements in India
Title | New Farmers' Movements in India PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Brass |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2014-03-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1135203148 |
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.
Special Issue on New Farmers' Movements in India
Title | Special Issue on New Farmers' Movements in India PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Brass |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1994 |
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Farmers' Movements in India
Title | Farmers' Movements in India PDF eBook |
Author | Mangesh Venktesh Nadkarni |
Publisher | |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Agriculture |
ISBN |
Reinventing Revolution
Title | Reinventing Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Gail Omvedt |
Publisher | M.E. Sharpe |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 1993-06-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780765631763 |
This study describes and analyses the new social movements that have arisen in India over the past two decades, in particular the anti-caste movement (of both the untouchables and the lower-middle castes), the women's liberation movement, the farmers' movement (centred on struggles arising out of their integration into a state-controlled capitalist market), and the environmental movements (opposition to destructive development, including resistance to big dam projects and the search for alternatives). Rooted in participant observation, it focuses on the ideologies and self-understanding of the movements themselves. The central themes of this book are the origin of movements in the socio-economic contradictions of post-independence India; their effect on political developments, in particular the disintegration of Congress hegemony; their relation to "traditional Marxist" theory and Communist practice; and their groping toward a synthesis of theory and practice that constitutes a new social vision distinct from traditional Marxism.
New Farmers' Movements and the Agrarian Question in India
Title | New Farmers' Movements and the Agrarian Question in India PDF eBook |
Author | Christoph Michael Schimmele |
Publisher | |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Agriculture |
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