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Explain the dynamics of neo-farmers’ movement in contemporary India.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Social Movements in Modern India

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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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