Content :
- Historical Context of Peasant Movements
- Causes of Emergence of Peasant Movements
- Meaning of Peasant?
- Categories of Peasant
- Classification of Kisan Movements
- Pre-Independent Kisan Movements
- Post-Independent Kisan Movements
- New Farmers' Movement
- Difference between 19th & 20th Centuries Kisan Movements
- Impacts of Kisan Movements
8. Classification of Kisan Movements
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Aasim
Suhail
According to Ghanshyam Shah,
1. Pre-British
2. British or Colonial
3. Post-Independence
*A.R Desai calls the movements
as “Peasant Struggles” in the
Colonial period
*And those of Post-Independence
era as “Agrarian Struggles”
Pushpendra Surana – mainly based on issues such as the movments against
1. Forced Cultivation of a particular type of crop,
2. Exploitation by moneylenders, 3. Price Rise,
4. Outside invaders and 5. Dynasties