Peasant Movements in India, 1920-1950
Title | Peasant Movements in India, 1920-1950 PDF eBook |
Author | D. N. Dhanagre |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Peasant Movements in India
Title | Peasant Movements in India PDF eBook |
Author | Kankanala Munirathna Naidu |
Publisher | |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | India |
ISBN |
Covers post and pre independence period.
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.
Peasant Struggles in India
Title | Peasant Struggles in India PDF eBook |
Author | Akshayakumar Ramanlal Desai |
Publisher | Bombay : Oxford University Press |
Pages | 790 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | India |
ISBN |
Collection of articles.
Peasants in India's Non-Violent Revolution
Title | Peasants in India's Non-Violent Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Mridula Mukherjee |
Publisher | SAGE |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 2004-09-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780761996866 |
In part one of this volume, the political world of the peasants of Punjab is reconstructed, capturing their struggles at a national level, as well as at an individual one. Part Two makes important interventions in the theoretical debates regarding the role of peasants in revolutionary transformation in the modern world. The author argues that the association of revolution with large-scale violence has resulted in the refusal to recognize the non-violent, yet revolutionary political practice of peasants in the Indian National Movement.
Peasant Movements in India
Title | Peasant Movements in India PDF eBook |
Author | Sunil Kumar Sen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | India |
ISBN |
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.