Farm laws and the Agrarian crisis in India

Abstract

In the aftermath of the repeal of the three farm laws and the end of the historic farmers struggle on the borders of the nation's capital, Delhi bear an interesting phenomenon that needs to be studied and analysed. This paper studies some of the significant academic interventions and analysis of the laws and how they would affect specifically the small and middle farmers. Through the course of this paper, the attempt is not to create a binary between the amendments made to the existing laws and the pre-amendment state protections. One of the motivations of the paper is also to understand the need for state driven bulwarks to protect the interests and lives of the farmers. In the process, it has been necessary to understand the need to not only retain the prior provisions that reign in the heavy hand of the corporations but the ways in which their potential can be maximised in favour of the farmers. This paper involves close reading and analysis of research by political scientists and sociologists.