1st Edition
A People's History of the Farmers' Movement, 2020–2021
1 Why do we need a people’s history of the farmers’ movement?
SHAMSHER SINGH AND SABAH SIDDIQUI
2 Farm protests take the country by storm
ZOYA HASAN
3 The anti-farm law movement and the agrarian question in India
SHAMSHER SINGH AND PARAMJIT SINGH
4 Deepening ties with the homeland: multiple dimensions of the UK Sikh diaspora’s role in the farmers’ protest
PRITAM SINGH
5 Farmers’ Morcha 2020–2021: background, achievements, and challenges
BALWINDER SINGH TIWANA
6 Protest-landscape of the farmers’ movement in Haryana
MAHABIR S. JAGLAN AND RAJESHWARI
7 Acquiescence and assertion: the Kisan Andolan and a changing socio-political landscape in Uttar Pradesh
VISHAL SINGH DEO AND AKRAM AKHTAR CHOUDHARY
8 Making of farmers’ resistance in northern Rajasthan: a study of Shahjahanpur border protest
SUDHIR KUMAR SUTHAR, ANKIT SINGH, AND LOKESH SWAMI
9 Farmers’ protests in Rajasthan: continuing a historic legacy
S. MOHANAKUMAR, SANJAY MADHAV, AND PREM KUMAR
10 The farmers’ protests in Maharashtra
ASHOK DHAWALE AND AMIT NARKAR
11 Loh Langar Tapde Rahen: revolution and food in the farmers’ movement
SABAH SIDDIQUI AND SARABJEET DHODY NATESAN
12 Women and songmaking in the anti-farm laws movement: a case study of the Badowal Toll Plaza in Haryana
KOPAL
13 Reappropriation of space: creation of temporary counter-space for protest at Tikri
VAIDEHI LAVAND, ONKAR KHEBUDKAR, NINAD REVATKAR, AND RAMIYA GOPALKRISHNAN
14 Uploading tractor to Twitter: how protesters used media during farmers’ movement
HARINDER HAPPY AND SHIVAM MOGHA
15 Protest songs of identity and existence in the peasants’ movement
PRATEEK
Biography
Shamsher Singh teaches sociology at FLAME University, Pune, India. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA), Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has been involved in conducting village studies on agrarian relations and conditions across different agro-ecological regions in India and has worked on rural housing, living standards, unfree labour, and residential segregation. He curates the People’s Archive of Farmers’ Protests (https://pafp.in) that documents the mobilisations and protest actions of the farmers’ movement of 2020–21.
Sabah Siddiqui is assistant professor at the School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences, Krea University, Sricity, Andhra Pradesh. She received her doctorate from the University of Manchester and is currently Honorary Research Fellow there. She has worked on the psychology and sociology of religion through a psychoanalytic and anthropological lens in her monograph Religion and Psychoanalysis in India (2016). Most recently, she has co-edited a special issue on Psychoanalytic Perspectives on South Asia (2024) for the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.
