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The Fact/Fiction of Indian Agriculture

By Alex M Thomas|2022-02-01T14:43:35+05:30June 20, 2019|

At a time when the economics of agriculture has been ousted from the economics curricula in India, it is heartening to see agrarian issues occupying a central position in recent books of fiction. In this blog, I review Kota Neelima’s Death of a Moneylender (2016, Penguin, Gurgaon).

A Book Review by John Harriss

By FAS Team|2022-02-01T14:49:54+05:30February 13, 2019|

Professor John Harriss of Simon Fraser University has reviewed How Do Small Farmers Fare? Evidence from Village Studies in India, a publication of the Foundation for Agrarian Studies, in the recent issue of Journal of Agrarian Change.

Documenting the Kisan Long March

By Aparajita Bakshi and Ranjini Basu|2022-02-01T15:05:05+05:30July 18, 2018|

On March 6, 2018, a farmers’ protest march under the banner of the All Indian Kisan Sabha (AIKS) began from CBS Chowk in Nashik. The swelling sea of marching peasants and workers, wearing red caps and carrying red flags and banners, ended their 200 km march at the historic Azad Maidan in Mumbai in the early hours of March 12, 2018. The six-day march or the Long March, as the march came to be called, was watched on television screens across the country with growing admiration and support.

Paltry Returns

By Siddhartha Mitra|2022-01-31T15:04:22+05:30January 9, 2018|

The sequencing of chapters and their content ensures that the book emerges as a coherent whole rather than a disjointed set of contributions, often a feature of edited books. The data it uses has been collected through a socio-economic census of 17 villages located in different agro-ecological zones in nine large states of India.

Small farmers in Indian Agriculture

By Daniel Little|2022-02-01T14:49:59+05:30October 31, 2017|

This volume is a very important contribution to development studies in India and other parts of South and Southeast Asia. The dynamics of agriculture remain a critical factor in the social progress of these countries, and this careful and detailed research will provide a basis for constructing more effective development policies in India and elsewhere.

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