New Farmers' Movements in India

• Author(s): Tom Brass,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 304
• ISBN_10: 1135203148
  ISBN_13: 9781135203146
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General , Social Science / Human Geography , Social Science / Regional Studies ,

Description:... 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.