Peasants' Movements in Post-Colonial India
Title | Peasants' Movements in Post-Colonial India PDF eBook |
Author | Debal K Singharoy |
Publisher | SAGE |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2004-05-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780761998266 |
This is an investigation of the anatomy and internal dynamics of peasant movements in India. It makes a comparative analysis of the Tebhaga (Bengal, 1946-47), Telengana (Andhra, 1948-52) and Naxalite (North Bengal, 1967-71) movements to study the ways in which grassroots mobilizations transform and institutionalize themselves, forge new collective identities and articulate new strategies for survival and resistance. The author uses empirical data and secondary research to argue that radicalism in peasant movements is in inverse proportion to institutionalization. As spontaneous expressions of discontent against oppression and marginalization become institutionalized movements, the space for radical challenge shrinks. Therefore, in Bengal, the co-option of the peasant movement by the ruling communist party and the state has largely killed the scope for radical action. In Andhra Pradesh on the other hand, the relative independence of the grassroots mobilization process (along with logistic and ideological inputs from NGOs and radical social and Naxalite groups) has allowed the peasantry to exercise multiple options for collective action. However, in both cases, the grassroots mobilization has led to a transformation of the social identity of the peasant, and created a social environment in which issues of dominance and resistance have an important place. The study of the Indian experience is placed in the context of theories of peasant identity and resistance to oppression. The first chapter of the book is devoted to the summing up of sociological perspectives on peasant societies, identities and movements. It includes references to the works of Marx and Lenin, Redfield, Chayanov, Wolf and Gramsci, and, in the Indian context, Beteille, Byres and several others. The book reexamines problems that have got relatively less importance in recent years. It seeks to understand issues that are of enduring relevance in the Indian countryside that continues to simmer with unrest even as it comes to grips with a new economic situation. The book will be of as much interest to researchers and policymakers as to the intelligent general reader.
Peasant Movements in Post-colonial India
Title | Peasant Movements in Post-colonial India PDF eBook |
Author | Debal K. SinghaRoy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Peasantry |
ISBN | 9788178292977 |
The central concern of this book is to examine in a comparative framework, the ways in which grassroots mobilizations transform and institutionalize themselves, forge new collective identities and articulate new strategies for survival and resistance. Debal K SinghaRoy focuses on three major radical movements--Tebhaga and Naxalite in West Bengal and Telangana in Andhra Pradesh. Based on empirical data and supported by a wide range of secondary sources, the author argues that as spontaneous expressions of discontent against oppression, domination and marginalization turn into institutionalized movements, the space for radical challenge shrinks. As exemplified in West Bengal, the co-option of peasant movements by the state has largely stifled the scope for radical action. In Andhra Pradesh, on the other hand, the relative independence of the grassroots mobilization process has allowed the peasantry to exercise multiple options for collective action.
Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India
Title | Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India PDF eBook |
Author | Ranajit Guha |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780822323488 |
This classic work in subaltern studies portrays the peasant insurgency in British India from the peasant's viewpoint.
Agrarian Structure and Peasant Movements in Colonial and Post-independence India
Title | Agrarian Structure and Peasant Movements in Colonial and Post-independence India PDF eBook |
Author | Arun Ghosh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Agricultural systems |
ISBN |
Peasant History of Late Pre-colonial and Colonial India
Title | Peasant History of Late Pre-colonial and Colonial India PDF eBook |
Author | B. B. Chaudhuri |
Publisher | Pearson Education India |
Pages | 988 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Geschichte |
ISBN | 9788131716885 |
Peasant Struggles and Agrarian Conflicts in Post Colonial India
Title | Peasant Struggles and Agrarian Conflicts in Post Colonial India PDF eBook |
Author | Victor P. Karunan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 15 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Naxalite Movement |
ISBN |
Agrarian Movements in India
Title | Agrarian Movements in India PDF eBook |
Author | Arvind N. Das |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2018-10-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317845382 |
First published in 1982. In this volume we present a collection of original papers, edited by Arvind N. Das, on agrarian movements in the populous Indian state of Bihar. These movements are traced from the early twentieth century through to the Naxalite activity of the recent past; their content and the forces which gave rise to them are examined; and the response of the state — both the colonial state and the post-colonial state — is identified. Believed to be a significant contribution to the literature on agrarian movements, which should be of considerable value to both specialists on India and to those with a more general interest in the agrarian question.