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Critically examine D.N. Dhanagare’s views on agrarian movements in India.

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  • Social Movements in Modern India

D. N. Dhanagare's Peasant Movements in India, 1920–1950 (1983) is the most rigorous class-analytical account of Indian agrarian struggle. Against nationalist celebration and the assumption of peasant passivity alike, he asked one empirical question of every movement: which agrarian stratum actually rebelled, and who led it?

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