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

Author: Tom Brass

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-05

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1135203148

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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
Populism and Power

Author: D. N. Dhanagare

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-22

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 131733034X

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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.

Farmers, Subalterns, and Activists
Farmers, Subalterns, and Activists

Author: Trent Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1108425100

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In theory, chemical-free sustainable agriculture not only has ecological benefits, but also social and economic benefits for rural communities. By removing farmers' expenses on chemical inputs, it provides them with greater autonomy and challenges the status quo, where corporations dominate food systems. In practice, however, organisations promoting sustainable agriculture often maintain connections with powerful institutions and individuals, who have vested interests in maintaining the status quo. This book explores this tension within the sustainable farming movement through reference to three detailed case studies of organisations operating in rural India.

Social Movements in Development
Social Movements in Development

Author: Staffan Lindberg

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1349254487

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Nationalist movements in the South have been superseded by a plethora of different social movements. This book examines these new movements and considers emerging paradigms of organization and mobilization, which are related to the role movements play in economic and political development. The book analyzes a number of cases and their context and discusses the implications for social movement theory. The focus is on social movements among underprivileged and middle class groups, and the book is global in scope.

Reinventing Revolution
Reinventing Revolution

Author: Gail Omvedt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-09-16

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1351551647

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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.

Social Movements in the Global South
Social Movements in the Global South

Author: S. Motta

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-03-29

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0230302041

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Popular struggles in the global south suggest the need for the development of new and politically enabling categories of analysis, and new ways of understanding contemporary social movements. This book shows how social movements in Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East politicize development in an age of neoliberal hegemony.

Agrarian Movements in India
Agrarian Movements in India

Author: Arvind N. Das

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1317845382

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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.

Social Movements in India
Social Movements in India

Author: Raka Ray

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780742538436

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Social movements have played a vital role in Indian politics since well before the inception of India as a new nation in 1947. During the Nehruvian era, poverty alleviation was a foundational standard against which policy proposals and political claims were measured; at this time, movement activism was directly accountable to this state discourse. In the first volume to focus on poverty and class in its analysis of social movements, a group of leading India scholars shows how social movements have had to change because poverty reduction no longer serves its earlier role as a political template. With distinctive chapters on gender, lower castes, environment, the Hindu Right, Kerala, labor, farmers, and biotechnology, Social Movements in India will be attractive to students and researchers in many different disciplines.

Agrarian Crisis in India
Agrarian Crisis in India

Author: D. Narasimha Reddy

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-06-23

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0199088306

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This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the macro- and micro-level issues associated with agrarian distress. It analyses structural, institutional, and policy changes, highlighting the failure of public support system in agriculture. The crisis manifests itself in the form of deceleration in growth and distress of farmers. The case studies from Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Punjab bring out the diversity of conditions prevalent in the states.

Peasants, Populism, and Postmodernism
Peasants, Populism, and Postmodernism

Author: Tom Brass

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780714649405

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Tracing the emergence and re-emergence of the agrarian myth in the past century the argument in this book is that at the centre of the discourse about the cultural identity of "otherness/difference" lies the concept of an innate "peasant-ness".