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Contextualising the new farmers' movements which emerged in India during the 1980s in terms of economic developments both at the national and the international level, the contributions to this volume are grouped round four themes. First, the extent to which the farmers' mobilisations in India are part of a general global trend towards new social movements. Second, the historical background and future direction of the new farmers' movements in India are part of a general global trend towards new social movements. Second, the historical background and future direction of the new farmers' movements in India. Third, their class composition and regional specificity. And furth, the kind of mobilising ideology (anti-s Farmers -- India Peasant Uprisings -- India Journal of Peasant Studies 180718