Farmers' Protest
Why the Indian Farmers Went on Strike
$31.99
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
12 February 2025
Summary
Under colonial rule in India in 1917, Mohandas K Gandhi led a satyagraha alongside local farmers in Bihar, resulting in what would become the non-violent movement for India’s independence. More than a century later, one of the largest non-violent farmers’ protests in recent world history took place in New Delhi. The unrest began in Punjab and Haryana in June 2020 and reached India’s capital city in November 2020. By January 2021 hundreds of thousands of farmers and farm labourers demonstrated…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522878707 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0522878709 |
| Author: | Namita Waikar |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 12 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 390g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 235mm x 155mm |
| Series: | Asia-Pacific |
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About The Author
Namita Waikar
Namita Waikar is the author of The Long March, a novel about the agrarian crisis in India that triggered a farmers’ protest movement. Waikar studied biochemistry at the University of Mumbai and is a partner in a chemistry databases firm, a culmination of her work as a biochemist and a software project manager. She is co-founder and managing editor at the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI), where she also writes for and anchors the Grindmill Songs Project. She lives in Pune.
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