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The years since independence have seen agrarian struggles of enormous variety ranging from the legendary telangana peasant movement and the pepsu tenants movement which continued from the pre independence years to the naxalite or maoist movement in the late 1960s and the new farmers movements of the 1980s. Ipieceson agrarian india after lndepen and some reports purportedly giving india picture of agrarian struggles i the other consisting of articles giving ponal picture of agrarian struggles the oon is somewhat arbitrary as is the ngement of the pieces in part two if they ibeen arranged in the order of historical. Tical pieces on agrarian india after indepen dence and some reports purportedly giving an all india picture of agrarian struggles and the other consisting of articles giving a regional picture of agrarian struggles the division is somewhat arbitrary as is the arrangement of the pieces in part two if they had been arranged in the order . From google books consisting of twenty five articles written by scholars and activists this volume confronts the conflicts of rural india after independence encompassing both nation wide and regional perspectives the contributors provide a comprehensive grass roots account of the agrarian struggles facing all of india. This book examines the vast number of agrarian struggles which arose after independence and argues that certain policies of the congress government such as those relating to land reform were read more