CSAS Lecture Series | India: The Contours of Emerging Agrarian Crisis and its Implications

If you are unable to join us in person due to the inclement weather, we will also be livestraming this event here: https://ii.umich.edu/csas/news-events/events/live-streaming-event.html

'Everything else can wait but not agriculture'. Indian agriculture has come a long way. Today the agrarian crisis in India has assumed systemic proportions. This has not happened suddenly. This story of agrarian crisis is a story that has unfolded in some sense over last two and a half decades and more. However this crisis is of a completely different dimension and will have a long term impact on the nature of the Republic itself. What then is the nature of this crisis? What are the systemic issues it poses? This presentation is about raising such questions and the way they are framed. The unravelling of India's agrarian landscape potentially has global implications. This presentation is a limited and inadequate attempt to frame the outlines of an understanding of the nature of this crisis.

Ajay Dandekar did his PhD from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi in the early nineties. He has worked on the issue of Denotified and Nomadic Communities, and Pastoral Nomadic groups. He has done work on the agrarian crisis and farmers' suicides. Lately his research interest has spilled over in the issues of resources and conflict in the tribal heartland and he has contributed writings on the same. He is at present a faculty member in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University.