Peasant Movements in India, 1920-1950
Author : D. N. Dhanagre
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : D. N. Dhanagre
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Kankanala Munirathna Naidu
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 23,71 MB
Release : 1994
Category : India
ISBN :
Covers post and pre independence period.
Author : Tom Brass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : 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.
Author : D. N. Dhanagare
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 19,84 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : 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.
Author : Arvind N. Das
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 33,92 MB
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : 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.
Author : Debal K Singharoy
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 2004-05-25
Category : 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.
Author : Akshayakumar Ramanlal Desai
Publisher : Bombay : Oxford University Press
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 1979
Category : India
ISBN :
Collection of articles.
Author : Vinayak Chaturvedi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 24,8 MB
Release : 2007-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0520250788
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Author : M. S. A. Rao
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,73 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Eric Stokes
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,14 MB
Release : 1978-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521216845
These twelve essays explore the nature of south Asian agrarian society and examine the extent to which it changed during the period of British rule. The central focus of the book is directed to peasant agitation and violence and four of the studies look at the agrarian explosion that formed the background to the 1857 Mutiny. The essays give a coherent historical treatment of the Indian peasant world, and the paperback edition of this successful book will be of interest to the student of peasant studies and to the sociologist as well as to development economists and agronomists generally.