Agrarian Reform and Farmer Resistance in Punjab: Mobilization and Resilience

This book examines the different dimensions of farmer agitations in Punjab, India. It situates the 2020-2021 farmer resistance movement within the wider context of India’s post-independent development trajectory and provides a thorough analysis of various aspects of the farmers’ movement in India.

Shinder Singh Thandi, PhD, is a former Professor who taught in the Global Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Previously, he was based at Coventry University, UK, where he was head of Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting from 2009 to 2015. He is founder-editor of the Journal of Sikh & Punjab Studies, published since 1994. He has published many journal articles and book chapters on Indian and Punjabi migration and on different dimensions of Sikh diaspora and homeland relations. He co-authored A South Asian History of Britain: Four Centuries of Peoples from the Indian Sub-Continent (with Michael Fisher and Shompa Lahiri; 2007) and co-edited People on the Move: Punjabi Colonial and Post-Colonial Migration (with Ian Talbot; 2004) and Punjabi Identity in a Global Context (with Pritam Singh; 1999).