A People's History of the Farmers' Movement, 2020–2021

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1 Why do we need a people’s history of the farmers’ movement?
2 Farm protests take the country by storm
3 The anti-farm law movement and the agrarian question in India
4 Deepening ties with the homeland: multiple dimensions of the UK Sikh diaspora’s role in the farmers’ protest
5 Farmers’ Morcha 2020–2021: background, achievements, and challenges
6 Protest-landscape of the farmers’ movement in Haryana
7 Acquiescence and assertion: the Kisan Andolan and a changing socio-political landscape in Uttar Pradesh
8 Making of farmers’ resistance in northern Rajasthan: a study of Shahjahanpur border protest
9 Farmers’ protests in Rajasthan: continuing a historic legacy
10 The farmers’ protests in Maharashtra
11 Loh Langar Tapde Rahen: revolution and food in the farmers’ movement
12 Women and songmaking in the anti-farm laws movement: a case study of the Badowal Toll Plaza in Haryana
13 Reappropriation of space: creation of temporary counter-space for protest at Tikri
14 Uploading tractor to Twitter: how protesters used media during farmers’ movement
15 Protest songs of identity and existence in the peasants’ movement
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