IDEAS is set to host a Book Talk on the recently published volume: The Indian Farmers’ Protest of 2020–2021: Agrarian Crisis, Dissent and Identity. 

Date: Wednesday, 23rd April
Time: 4 pm - 6 pm
Venue: Big Bang Conference Room, T1, First Floor

Published in 2023, this timely and comprehensive work reflects on the farmers' protest that unfolded at the Singhu Border between 2020–2021, offering rich insights into agrarian struggles, democratic dissent, and identity politics in contemporary India.

Contributing authors presenting their insights include:
Surinder S. Jodhka is Professor of Sociology at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He researches on different dimensions of social inequalities, contemporary dynamics of caste, agrarian change, rural India, and the political sociology of community identities. His recent publications include The Indian Village: Rural Lives in the 21st Century. Aleph 2023; The Oxford Handbook of Caste. OUP 2023 (ed with Jules Naudet); India’s Villages in the 21st Century: Revisits and Revisions OUP 2019 (edited with Edward Simpson). He has been a recipient of the ICSSR-Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientists.

David Singh is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark). His research interests focus on land politics, resource extraction and green energy infrastructures, the making of citizenship and nations from a political ecology and critical agrarian studies perspective. David’s Ph.D. dissertation discussed the issue of mediation and caste power in fixing large-scale wind power projects, the reconfiguration of space by identity politics and Hindu nationalism and the emergence of diverse resistance practices.

Gurshamshir Singh Waraich is an independent journalist based in Punjab working with an Internet-based digital medium.

Deepanshu Mohan is Professor of Economics and Dean, IDEAS, Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), India. His teaching affiliation for taught courses in areas of comparative political economy, development studies, research methods, is with the Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities at the University (JGU), where he is also Director, Centre for New Economics Studies (CNES), and Senior Research Fellow, International Institute of Higher Education (IIHED). 

Aashita Dawer is a Co-Lead & Senior Research Fellow, Climate & Sustainability, IDEAS and an Associate Professor(Economics) at JGLS. She is a heterodox economist with interdisciplinary expertise spanning climate justice, voting analysis, property rights, political economy, mental health, and gender studies. Focusing on challenging mainstream economic paradigms, her research critically examines the intersections of justice, democracy, and freedom through both empirical and philosophical lenses. 

The session will be Chaired and Moderated by:

Kajori Sen is an Associate Professor at the Jindal School of Journalism and Communication. She is an Associate Professor of Practice at the Jindal School of Journalism and Communications. Before joining JGU, she worked as a news anchor and political economy reporter with NDTV and Network18. Her research and academic work currently looks at narrative and rhetorical patterns in Indian news and cinema, specifically looking at crime, gender and caste.

The book talk promises to be a stimulating and interdisciplinary discussion. 

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