Peasant Movement in South Maharashtra: Not only 'Issue based' Anymore

Anant Phadke ()

Working Papers from eSocialSciences

Abstract: The February agitation of farmers and the drought affected of rural South Maharashtra, in the form of a two-day ‘sit in’ last in Mumbai led to ministerial-level negotiations and several important decisions. If the ruling circles have been relatively more responsive to this movement in the last couple of years than in the past, it is because the movement has remained only ‘issue-based’ anymore, but has threatened the political base of the ruling parties by specifically challenging the elected representatives of the ruling parties on these issues.

Keywords: Maharashtra; South Maharashtra; irrigation; water distribution; biomass; farmers; drought affected; Shramik Mukti Dal; 'sit in' (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-10
Note: Current Affairs
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.esocialsciences.org/Download/repecDownl ... s&AId=223&fref=repec

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:223

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from eSocialSciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Padma Prakash ().