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Peasant Movements in India Then and Now ISSN 0970-8669 Odisha Review Peasant Movements in India Then and Now Dr. S. Kumar Swami India is an agricultural country. Agricultural peasantry at the centre of the revolution. production has been the means of the live of the Dipankar Gupta argues about the two kinds of Indian people since ages. In ancient and medieval agrarian movements in independence. India, states formed and abolished because of agricultural production. The rich agricultural First, those agrarian movements which production situation attracted many invaders to are done by the poor agriculture labourers and attack on India. Agricultural revenue was the main marginal farmers, and these kinds of movements source of income for the states in India. In ancient are known as peasants movement. Second, those and medieval India, states became powerful due agrarian movements which are done by the owners to the revenue collection. But, during medieval of the land and these are known as farmers period, tax revenue collection was not oppressive. movement. The first type of agrarian movements Therefore, peasants’ movement did not appear are led by political parties and farmers' till medieval period. But, the arrival of European associations such as Kisan Sabha, Communist companies, brought new revenue collecting Party of India (CPI), Communist Party of India- pattern. Their objective was to get more benefits Marxist (CPI- M), Communist Party of India because the foundation of those companies was (Marxist-Leninist) (CPI-ML) etc. The second done for doing business. The British East India type of agrarian movements are led by farmers' Company of England conquered India by groups such as, Bharatiya Kisan Union which is politically as well as economically. It imposed high active in west UP, Punjab, Haryana; the Shetkari taxes on the peasants and interfered in their social, Shangathan in Maharashtra and Rajya Ryota political, economic and religious matters. Because Sangha in Karnataka. The basic difference of these reasons, the peasant movements between these two groups of parties is that the emerged in India. first group of party works for the poor peasants, INTRODUCTION and the second group of the party, works for the Peasant movements are the movements landholders. which are done by the peasants because of IDEOLOGY OF PEASANT MOVEMENTS agrarian reasons. Ideology of class conflict also IN INDIA plays an important role in peasant movements. Karl Marx considers the peasantry to be passive, Peasant movement is a kind of social while Lenin, Fanon and Mao have placed movement, therefore, by and large, peasant 56 AUGUST - 2021 Odisha Review ISSN 0970-8669 movements have same reasons and ideologies marched on until they were stopped at the gates which play their role in other social movements. of the national capital. There is a phenomenal difference The protests by peasants across the between peasant movements then and now. In country, which have escalated gradually since colonial India, peasant movements were largely June, when the Central Government invoked a against the British Empire or the states under set of ordinances that were later legislated. These princely rule often involving often some have snowballed into a massive tidal wave of combination of “zamindar, sahukar, anger. Along the way the scope of the movement sarkar (landlord, usurer and state)”. The protests widened, pulling in support from an ever-growing would be against the rise in revenue rates and range of Indian citizens. Retired bureaucrats, other kinds of obligations that elites might demand, youths, scientists, workers in both organised and such as begar or forced labour without unorganised sectors, and even sportspersons have remuneration in cash or kind, oppressive cesses expressed solidarity with the agitating farmers and and repayment of loans with high-interest rates. provided material support to the agitation that has captured the imagination and the hearts and minds Peasant mobilisations were not uncommon in of Indians in a manner not seen in decades. Mughal India but they had greatly escalated in British India, particularly against the sophisticated It is beyond doubt that the ongoing colonial apparatus, including revenue settlement protests are the largest-ever mobilisation of the and forest reports and their respective peasantry in independent India. Properly bureaucracies. understood, one must count not just those peasants at Delhi’s borders but also those who The colonial bureaucracy was primarily have been on the streets in villages, towns and a revenue bureaucracy, hence the appellation State capitals across the country—from solidarity “collector” who was then tagged with other roles. protests in Kerala to the mobilisation of peasants The institution of the Indian railways facilitated in many other States. Indeed, comparisons have the deep penetration of the state and market, the been made with the siege of Delhi 32 years ago extraction and movement of agrarian produce by peasants led by Mahendra Singh Tikait’s would become a mode of colonial control over Bharatiya Kisan Union. That comparison is not the “wild”. valid for several reasons. At present the unprecedented protests by The ongoing protests are very different the Indian peasantry against the three new laws from that of 1988; the only common factor that allegedly is favouring the interests of big between then and now is that this time the business in agriculture win support and solidarity government desperately tried to rope in Mahendra from across the country and take on a historically Singh’s son, Rakesh Tikait, in a ham-handed new dimension. attempt to split the ranks of the agitating peasants. The winter of discontent descended on It failed because even the younger Tikait did not Delhi in late November. Braving water cannons wish to be seen as a backstabber. in the dead of winter, and abuses, taunts, trolls, The first striking difference between then blatant misinformation and even the outright and now is that the earlier movement, unlike the condescension of a patronising government, they ongoing one, was mainly confined to farmers from AUGUST - 2021 57 ISSN 0970-8669 Odisha Review western Uttar Pradesh. Tikait’s own base was in Tikait’s later casteist slur against a Dalit Chief and around Muzaffarnagar district in the region. Minister of his time and his obvious fondness of More specifically, the protests then were mainly the khap (caste panchayat) and its traditions by Jat farmers growing sugarcane, whose primary reflected a limited role for his mobilisation, one demand was higher prices for the cane, loan that was severely circumscribed by the appeals waivers and concessions on the newly levied of caste and a severely limited role for women— electricity and water charges. a feudal mindset, if you will. It is not as if the feudal There is an attempt to portray the ongoing prejudice has disappeared, it is just that the movement as exclusively the concern of rich widened base of the movement and its farmers and traders and as being confined to democratisation have imposed limits on the open farmers from Punjab. There is little doubt that it articulation of such rabidly sectarian views. has much wider support and solidarity from across It is not as if these limitations, imposed the country. Although all sections of the peasants by the differentiation of the peasantry, have and agricultural workers may not be present at evaporated. Instead, it is obvious that different the Delhi borders, the agitation has been joined sections of the peasants—and landless workers by different sections of the peasantry, including in the countryside, especially in Punjab—have workers. Of course, these sections have joined been mobilised in waves, particularly since the for different reasons—the workers primarily disastrous demonetisation of the Indian currency, because the new laws threaten livelihoods and which triggered a precipitous decline in prices access to foodgrains at reasonable prices and the from which the Indian peasant has still not other sections because the new laws threaten the recovered. The incorporation of these sections— very basis for farming as it has existed for decades. and of their specific ordering of the priority of the This wider representation was absent in the demands—makes the ongoing agitation stand out protests three decades ago. from peasant mobilisations in the past several Second, the protests of the 1980s did not decades. draw popular support on a scale that the ongoing A fifth standout feature of the ongoing protests have. Third, the protests of that period protests—one that probably draws from all the did not draw the kind of brutal might of the state other features mentioned earlier—is that, unlike apparatus as they have done now. It is certain in the past, there is no single messiah of the that the use of force by the government in Haryana peasants as they have mobilised in waves since has prevented a much larger mobilisation of June. Recall Tikait’s obviously overstated title of peasants from reaching Delhi; but even that is a messiah of the peasantry, conferred by clueless proving to be insufficient against the surge. Indeed, media pundits of his time, or the earlier rounds of the larger mobilisation of peasants from across peasant protests led by leaders such as M.D. India—Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Nanjundaswamy in Karnataka or Sharad Joshi Uttarakhand and parts of Maharashtra and in Maharashtra, and the difference between then Madhya Pradesh—indicate that the Tikait episode and now is striking. But it would be a mistake to pales into insignificance compared with what is take the absence of a single charismatic leader as happening now. a sign of weakness. In fact, that is its strength for The fourth striking difference between two reasons. First, it reflects the strong bonds of then and now is the presence of women. Strikingly, a coalition, which draws strength from an array 58 AUGUST - 2021 Odisha Review ISSN 0970-8669 of protesting sections within the ranks of the produce market committee (APMC) where peasantry.
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