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Examine the factors responsible for the rural unrest in contemporary India.

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  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

Rural unrest today is not a continuation of Tebhaga or Telangana. Those were struggles over rent, tenure and bonded labour waged by sharecroppers against landlords; contemporary unrest is about prices, inputs, credit and land acquisition, and is led as often by propertied cultivators as by the rural poor. D. N. Dhanagare's definition of peasant movements…

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  • Economic: the cost–price squeeze
  • Structural: land, tenancy and exclusion
  • Social: caste assertion and the aspiration gap
  • Political and the new forms
  • Limits
  • Conclusion

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