Peasant’s upsurge and the Raj: A historical process

Farmer movement is comparing three key relations between; relations between farmers and the state, between farmers and Big Corporate Houses, and relations within the rural areas between larger and smaller farmers and landless labourers. Smaller farmers, it is argued, are now more likely to ally with farmer labourers. The landless, who are in turn less dependent on larger farmers than they used to be because of the growth of non-agricultural wage labour. The neoliberal Indian state’s pro-corporate farm bills mean that contradictions within the countryside are for now overshadowed by external contradictions. And if implemented, they will accelerate processes of socio-economic differentiation in ways that make a new center of political gravity in the Indian countryside more likely.