Agrarian Unrest and Peasant Movements: Concept, Cause, Type | Sociology

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Chapters:
0:00 Agrarian unrest and Peasant movements
0:35 Introduction of Peasant movements
2:10 Concept of Peasant movements
2:57 Causes of Peasant movements
6:43 Types of Peasant Struggles
10:22 Movements in pre-independent India
10:59 Movements in post-independent India
11:09 Existing peasant struggles
11:27 MCQ about Agrarian unrest and Peasant movements


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Introduction
Not a new phenomenon
Part of National Movement – Bipin Chandra
State Government handles
Issues of land, agriculture
Other names – struggle for peasantry, peasant struggle, peasant uprising, peasant revolution, class struggle, class war, etc.
Concept
Famer’s agitation or revolt
Aim to bring about changes
Pre and post independent era

Causes
Exploitation
Debts
Increasing number of landless, uneducated and unemployed
Relative deprivation
Farmers organization and political awareness
Eviction of tenants
Anti-farmers policies by Government
Modern Technology
Types of Peasant Struggles
On the basis of:
Ideology
Purpose
Way of working
Organisational base
According to Kathleen Gough, five categories or types of peasant struggles
Types of peasant struggles
Restorative rebellion – Santal insurrection
Religious rebellion – Mopla Muslims of Malabar
Social banditry – snatch from wealthy and distribute to poor
Terrorist vengeance – People’s war group - Naxalites
Mass insurrections – mass explosions – leader is absent- spontaneous start and end
Another category added by, Dr. Dhanagare – Liberal Reformist Movements – no violence – Champaran satyagraha
Movements in pre-independent India
Integrated with National struggle
Violent
Victims of famine, high debts, struggle for National freedom
Targets – zamindars, money lenders, Government
Some examples:
Champaran movement, 1917
Kheda Peasant Struggle, 1918
Bardoli Satyagraha, 1920
Moplah Rebellion, 1921
Movements in post-independent India
Telangana Peasant Movement, 1947
Naxalbari Peasant Movement, 1967 #ugcnet #doorsteptutor #examrace