What are the reasons behind farmers’ protests? Using narratives collected from various parts of India, the underlying processes of socio-economic transformations, which have created a dual-identity crisis among farmers, are explained to argue that anxieties have manifested in large-scale protests, producing a new politics around rural–agrarian questions.

The full paper was published in the Economic and Political Weekly in Vol 53, No 26-27. 30 June 2018. Follow the link to read the article