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Discuss the main features of farmers’ movements in independent India.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Social Movements in Modern India

Confined to the years after 1947, agrarian mobilisation in India divides at two watersheds — Naxalbari (1967) and the Green Revolution. Zamindari abolition removed the colonial antagonist; the Green Revolution then created a new one, the state as price-setter. The features below follow from that sequence.

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  • Feature 1: the land question survives 1947, then fades
  • Feature 2: the leading class changes
  • Feature 3: the demand shifts from land to price
  • Feature 4: non-party form, regional base, new repertoires
  • Feature 5: after 1991, distress and coalition
  • Feature 6: a persistent silence
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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