Development and Change- " The collection includes some excellent essays...The book is a welcome and timely contribution to existing literature on social movements and will benefit anyone engaged in social movement research.

The essays in this collection focus on the reasons for and background to the emergence during the 1980s of the new farmers' movements in India. In addition to a more general consideration of the economic, political and theoretical dimensions of this development, there are case studies which cover the farmer's movements in Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Karnataka.