Urban-rural relations, demand politics and the 'new agrarianism' in northwest India: The Bharatiya Kisan Union

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 27-48

  Bentall, Jim ^a   Corbridge, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

New agrarian politics India urban rural relations Bharatiya Kisan Union village fieldwork

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN POLITICS; BHARATIYA KISAN UNION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DOMESTIC POLITICS; POLITICAL MOVEMENT; RURAL-URBAN RELATIONS; URBAN-RURAL RELATIONS;

INDIA;

EID: 0030448218     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/622922     Document Type: Article

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