Pramod Kumar is Director, Institute for Development and Communication (IDC), Chandigarh, India. He Chaired Commissions on Governance Reforms for the States of Punjab and Haryana, India. His latest book is The Idea of New India: Essays in Defence of Critical Thought.Kumool Abbi is Professor at the Department of Sociology while he also serves as Director at the Population Research Centre, Punjab University, Chandigarh, India.Amit Kumar is Research Officer, Institute for Development and Communication (IDC), Chandigarh, India.

• Introduction1. Politics of Agrarian Protests: Resistance to Corporatization of Agriculture in PunjabHistorical Context Land Reforms and Farmers’ Movements in Independent India Transformation of Farmers’ Movement: From Land to Pricing Stagnation in Agriculture Diversification of Crops: A Non-Starter Genesis of Agrarian Protests: Early and Late Green Revolution Shaping of Contemporary Protests Anti-Centre Anger at the Grass Roots NegotiationsTurning Point: State Response from Indifference Communal Twist2. The Status of the Status Quo: Locating Punjab in Contemporary Farmers' ProtestNew Farm Laws and Farmers’ Protest Dead Men Tell Long Tales: A Historical Aspect of Peasants Agitations in Punjab Role of the Farmers’ Unions and Other Organizations in the Peasant Struggle in PunjabRole of Songs Singers and Women in the Recent Farmers’ ProtestDevelopment RushWhat Lies Ahead? The Verdict?3. The Punjab Farmers' Agitation? Reaffirmation, Realignment and RenaissanceMobilizing Fear of Corporatization Through Folk SongsThree Shades of GreenShaping of Protest in Phases: Capturing the Role ofFolk SongsA Sense of Anti-CentrismRole of Women in the ProtestProcess, Protestors and NarrativesIdentity Assertion: Sikhs and FarmersSetback, Revival and VictoryAppendixReferencesBibliographyIndex

Pramod Kumar is Director, Institute for Development and Communication (IDC), Chandigarh, India. He Chaired Commissions on Governance Reforms for the States of Punjab and Haryana, India. His latest book is The Idea of New India: Essays in Defence of Critical Thought.Kumool Abbi is Professor at the Department of Sociology while he also serves as Director at the Population Research Centre, Punjab University, Chandigarh, India.Amit Kumar is Research Officer, Institute for Development and Communication (IDC), Chandigarh, India.

• Introduction1. Politics of Agrarian Protests: Resistance to Corporatization of Agriculture in PunjabHistorical Context Land Reforms and Farmers’ Movements in Independent India Transformation of Farmers’ Movement: From Land to Pricing Stagnation in Agriculture Diversification of Crops: A Non-Starter Genesis of Agrarian Protests: Early and Late Green Revolution Shaping of Contemporary Protests Anti-Centre Anger at the Grass Roots NegotiationsTurning Point: State Response from Indifference Communal Twist2. The Status of the Status Quo: Locating Punjab in Contemporary Farmers' ProtestNew Farm Laws and Farmers’ Protest Dead Men Tell Long Tales: A Historical Aspect of Peasants Agitations in Punjab Role of the Farmers’ Unions and Other Organizations in the Peasant Struggle in PunjabRole of Songs Singers and Women in the Recent Farmers’ ProtestDevelopment RushWhat Lies Ahead? The Verdict?3. The Punjab Farmers' Agitation? Reaffirmation, Realignment and RenaissanceMobilizing Fear of Corporatization Through Folk SongsThree Shades of GreenShaping of Protest in Phases: Capturing the Role ofFolk SongsA Sense of Anti-CentrismRole of Women in the ProtestProcess, Protestors and NarrativesIdentity Assertion: Sikhs and FarmersSetback, Revival and VictoryAppendixReferencesBibliographyIndex