Introduction: Agrarian questions and left politics in India

Journal of Agrarian Change

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 337-350

  Lerche, Jens ^a   Shah, Alpa ^b   Harriss White, Barbara ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c WOLFSON COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agrarian questions; Communist Party of India (Maoist); Communist Party of India (Marxist); India; Naxalites; Semi feudalism

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN CHANGE; CAPITALISM; ECONOMIC RELATIONS; FEUDALISM; GLOBALIZATION; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; POLITICS; SOCIALISM;

INDIA;

EID: 84879360795     PISSN: 14710358     EISSN: 14710366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joac.12031     Document Type: Article

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