Table of Contents

List of Tables. List of Figures. List of Abbreviations. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Understanding the Farmers’ Movement in Maharashtra: Towards An Analytical Framework 2. The Farmers’ Movement in Maharashtra: Background and Ideology 3. The Class Character of the Farmers’ Movement: 1980-2011 4. An Apoliticist Populism 5. Selective Appropriation of Gender Ideology: Mahila Aghadi of the Farmers’ Movement- 1986-2004 6. The Farmers’ Movement: Its Response to New Economic Reforms 7. Negative Returns of Ambivalence: Electoral Politics of the Farmers’ Movement, 1980-2014 8. Conclusions: Decline of the Movement Glossary. Index.

About the Author

D. N. Dhanagare has taught at the Institute of Social Sciences, Agra University (1961–68); Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (1968–77); and University of Poona, Pune (1977–95). He also served as Member-Secretary of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi (on deputation from 1991–93), and as Vice-Chancellor, Shivaji University, Kolhapur (1995–2000). He was invited by the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla as National Fellow (2012–14), during which he completed the writing of this book. He completed his Masters in Sociology from Nagpur University and D. Phil. from the University of Sussex. His research interests broadly span agrarian sociology, sociology of social movements and development sociology. His books include Peasant Movements in India, c. 1920–1950 (1983); Themes and Perspectives in Indian Sociology (1993); and The Missing Tradition: Debates and Discourses in Indian Sociology (2014).