Revisiting the Kisan Andolan (The Indian Farmers Protest)

This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to contextualise the movement in the long run. It engages with the historical, social and religious roots of the Andolan, examining what makes it so unique and transformative for Indian polity. It explores the (dis)continuities with previous resistance and contestation movements in India and globally, and debates the role so far of regional, religious and class-caste-gender identities. Through interviews, the volume also gives a specific voice and platform to grassroots activists and farmers from the movement.

Speaker:

David Singh is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark). His research interests focus on land politics, resource extraction and green energy infrastructures, the making of citizenship and nations from a political ecology and critical agrarian studies perspective. David’s Ph.D. dissertation discussed the issue of mediation and caste power in fixing large-scale wind power projects, the reconfiguration of space by identity politics and the emergence of diverse resistance practices to land dispossession. David Singh has published in Contemporary South Asia, Journal of Peasant Studies and Journal of Contemporary Asia.

For more info contact:

joel[dot]cabalion[at]csh-delhi[dot]com

laurence[dot]gautier[at]csh-delhi[dot]com

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