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Whom and What to Fight? Some Notes and Queries on Indian Farmers Collective Action under Liberalisation and Globalisation

Farmers’ movements arose in Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Karnataka, Maharashtra and U.P in the early 1970s as a result of the broad state intervention in commercial agricultural development, especially the green revolution technology and electrified pump-irrigation. Since the state had already organised farmers in service cooperatives, farmers’ movements took an explicitly political form agitating for bett