Table of Contents

Preface
Towards a Conceptual Framework
Radical Peasant Movements: An Interface with History
Peasantry in the Emerging Agrarian Social Structure
Contemporary Peasant Movements: An Account from Within
Trends of Mobilization: From Radicalization to Institutionalization
Domination, Dependency and Discontent: Peasant Praxis for New Identity and Autonomy
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Debal K. SinghaRoy, MA, MPhil, PhD, is Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. He is a recipient of the Australian Government Endeavour Fellowship, 2010, at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and the Commonwealth Fellowship at The Open University, the United Kingdom (2006–07). Furthermore, he is a fellow with the Alternative Development Studies Programme, Netherlands (2003); a visiting research fellow at the University of Alberta, Canada (2001); and a visiting scholar at the la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris (1999 and 2007). His academically acclaimed publications include Towards Knowledge Society: New Identitiesin Emerging India, Peasant Movementsin Post-ColonialIndia: Dynamics of Mobilization and Identity, Social Development and the Empowerment of the Marginalised Groups: Perspectives and Strategies (ed.), Women, New Technology and Development: Changing Nature of Gender Relations in Rural India, Women in Peasant Movements: Tebhaga, Naxalite and After, Social Movements: A Course Guide, Dissenting Voices and Transformative Actions: Social Movements in Globalizing World (ed.), Interrogating Social Development: Global Perspectives and Local Initiatives (ed.) and Surviving Against Odds: Marginalized in a Globalising World (ed.). Professor SinghaRoy has published several research papers in nationally and internationally reputed journals and contributed chapters on ‘Social Movements in India’ and ‘Peasant Movements’ in the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, 2013

Reviews

This book is not just a book on peasant movements but as a sociological work on peasant movements as author does a fine job of unearthing the actual process of institutionalization of grassroot mobilization by the Left political parties in West Bengal and the different trajectory in Andhra Pradesh.
*Indian Anthropologist*

Apart from building theoretical foundations, analytical and methodical framework, the interesting part of the book relates to origin and development of the three movements (Tebhaga, Telengana and Naxalite) and their link with contemporary mobilizations in the same villages. The author has made a comparative study to bring out commonalities and differences in grassroots mobilizations in experience in Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal…. The book is a well researched work on the radical peasant movements and their transformation in West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh. The book needs to be read by all those interested in radical rural transformation in India from the perspective of society`s oppressed sections.
*Economic and Political Weekly*

Singharoy has brought about a work that will be considered a pioneering study in the area of peasant movements…. The hard work that has gone into collecting data is reflected in the number of tables that contain enormous amount of information about social, political and economic status of peasants with other classes in society. The book is well written, methodical and is most comprehensive in tackling a subject that has not been probed seriously before. The reader will find it not only interesting but also thought provoking.
*The Resurging India*