Reasons for Farmers Protests in Delhi Thousands of farmers from across North India are protesting against the “three new agriculture related legislations”, which were passed by the Indian Parliament in September 2020 but farmers protest by and large Read More ……
Category: Farmers Movement
APMC-Agricultural Produce Market Committee
Agricultural Produce Market Committee is set-up by the state government of each state and APMC provide a platform for the farmers to sell their agricultural produce. APMC committees ensured that greedy intermediaries wouldn’t be able to exploit Read More ……
Peasant Movements in India -Notes
Peasant Movements in India-Notes Under colonialism, Indian peasantry was impoverished and suffered from variety of problems like high rents, arbitrary evictions, illegal tax levies and unpaid labour in zamindari regions. Eventually, the peasants started to resist this exploitation Read More ……
Tebhaga Movement
Tebhaga Movement Tebhaga literally means ‘three shares’ of harvests. The Tebhaga movement was the sharecroppers (tenants)‘ movement Tenants were demanding two thirds of the produce from land for themselves and one third for the landlords. Basically from this principle demand the Read More ……