Capitalism and Dependence: Agrarian Politics in Western Uttar Pradesh, 1951-1991 Book

This study seeks to analyse major issues relating to the agrarian economy and politics. It focuses on changes in the agrarian society and the mobilisation of agrarian classes by political parties, pressure groups and individuals. It also attempts to identify the social bases of political parties. The study is extremely useful viewed in the perspective of the assertion by commercial farmers in the 1970s and 1980s through agitation by Bharatiya Kisan Union, Shetkari Sanghatka Rajya Raitha Sangha and Vivasayingal Sangha in various regions of the country.