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What has been the political fallout of the Green Revolution in India? Explain.

  • UPSC 2019
  • 15 marks
  • Planning and Economic Development

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The Green Revolution produced a new political class as well as grain. It gave money, marketable surpluses and a common grievance to the cultivating castes that M. N. Srinivas called "dominant castes". Within two decades local dominance had become state and national power.

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  • A new agrarian class
  • End of the Congress system
  • Farmers' movements: from land to prices
  • Caste assertion
  • Punjab's crisis
  • A lasting subsidy settlement
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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