Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
Explain the dynamics of neo-farmers’ movement in contemporary India.
- UPSC 2018
- Social Movements in Modern India
The neo- or new farmers' movements, beginning in the late 1970s in Punjab, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, differ structurally from older peasant struggles: where the peasant fought a landlord for land, the farmer bargains with the state over price. Their dynamics follow from that shift — from a class in production to a class…
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- The structural motor: the Green Revolution
- The ideological dynamic: Bharat versus India
- The organisational dynamic
- The contemporary dynamic: from subsidy to survival
- The unresolved argument
- Conclusion
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