Spring 2021 Introduction Special Issues on Farmers’ Movement in India – Part 1 The Sikh Research Journal (SRJ) is meant to build bridges between scholars inthe field of Sikh and Punjabi Studies, academics from other disciplines, membersof the Sikh community, South Asians and others. The farmers’ movement, just asit has catalyzed issues and concerns beyond … Read more
Spring 2021 Abstract This paper evaluates the actual state of agricultural markets and existing agricultural marketregulation in India. It contrasts this with the design of the new “farm laws,” and argues thatthose reforms may be misdirected in many respects. The paper makes a case for betterunderstanding of intermediation, the need for several kinds of public … Read more
Spring 2021 Abstract Agricultural markets are key to ensuring higher farmer incomes, but in India, agriculturalmarket reforms have been stuck for almost two decades as agriculture is a state subject. TheUnion Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare (MoAFW) framed two new Acts onagricultural produce wholesale markets and contract farming (besides amending the EssentialCommodities Act, 1955) … Read more
Spring 2021 Images of the Farmer Protests – Click the PDF icon to view, right-click to save as. More Papers in the Farmers’ Movement Part 1 Other papers in this volume
Spring 2021 Snippet There has been much written about the farmer’s protest from variousperspectives, and gender is one of them. In this piece, I am going to delineatethat perspective with a premise that this protest is not solely a farmer protest,but a mass movement led by farmers. Historically, women’s labour has notbeen recognized in any … Read more
Spring 2021 Songs and Poems of the Farmers’ Protests – Click the PDF icon to view, right-click to save as. More Papers in the Farmers’ Movement Part 1 Other papers in this volume
Spring 2021 Poem: The First Time by Gurbhajan Gill – Click the PDF icon to view, right-click to save as. More Papers in the Farmers’ Movement Part 1 Other papers in this volume
Spring 2021 Poem: Sons of the Soil by Baljit Singh Virk – Click the PDF icon to view, right-click to save as. More Papers in the Farmers’ Movement Part 1 Other papers in this volume
Spring 2021 Responses of US-based Sikh Nonprofits to the Farmers’ Movement – Click the PDF icon to view, right-click to save as. More Papers in the Farmers’ Movement Part 1 Other papers in this volume
Spring 2021 Snippet Reprinted with permission fromBerkley Forum: Sikh Identity in the Indian Farm ProtestsBerkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs It has been months since Indian farmers have been protesting against three newagricultural laws instituted by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government.Contrary to government claims about the laws boosting efficiency in the farmingsector, … Read more