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How Can We Understand India's Agrarian Struggle Beyond 'Modi Sarkar Murdabad'? -Alf Gunvald Nilsen

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published Published on Dec 24, 2018   modified Modified on Dec 24, 2018
-Economic and Political Weekly

India is witnessing a new wave of agrarian protest. Grounded in a deep crisis in the country's agricultural sector, these protests express a deep sense of disappointment in the economic policies of the Modi regime. This article discusses how the new agrarian struggle should be understood as a symptom of the disintegration of the Modi regime's project of authoritarian populism. However, the author proposes that addressing India's agrarian crisis will require far more than simply ousting the Modi government. He argues that today's crisis is grounded in the neo-liberal reforms that have shaped India's political economy since the early 1990s, and it is therefore necessary to counter the crisis with a definite break with neo-liberalisation.

When some 35,000 farmers gathered in protest in Delhi during the last two days of November, their ire against the ruling dispensation in India was more than evident (Parth/PARI 2018). Chants of “Modi Sarkar Murdabad! Murdabad! Murdabad!” echoed through the streets of the capital, and demonstrators were vocal in calling attention to their sense of betrayal by Narendra Modi and his government. “Modi promised to double our income but we can't even feed ourselves,” said one protesting farmer from Odisha (Al Jazeera 2018). “We are very angry with the central government,” said another demonstrator. “They have not fulfilled any of the promises they made for farmers.” (Lalwani 2018)

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Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 53, Issue No. 50, 22 Dec, 2018, https://www.epw.in/engage/article/how-can-we-understand-indias-agrarian-struggle-beyond-modi-sarkar-murdabad?fbclid=IwAR1_Hb3icC_RP1


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