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Outline the factors responsible for unrest in agrarian communities of India. What suggestions will you give to arrest this trend?

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  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

Agrarian unrest in India is not episodic. Ranajit Guha found insurgency endemic under colonial rule and Kathleen Gough classified some seventy-seven revolts over two centuries, while A. R. Desai divided the post-1947 phase into struggles led by rich farmers and those led by the poor — a distinction that still separates price agitations from the…

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