Historical notes

Documentation at: http://www.baliraja.com/

There are also 4 apps Shetakari Sanghatana, Yugatma Paik, baliraja& Shetakari.

Pendse, Aruna, Peasant movement in Maharashtra : a case-study of the Shetkari Sanghatana

Cornelia Lenneberg, “Sharad Joshi and the Farmers: The Middle Peasant Lives!”, Pacific Affairs, Fall 1988 – I’ve extracted some material and published here.  [Her Masters dissertation of 1987 was entitled: The Shetkari Sanghatana, 1979-1987 : a middle peasant movement in Maharashtra, India].

Dhanagare, D. N., Shetkari Sanghatana: the farmers’ movement in Maharashtra – background and ideology, Social Action (New Delhi) 1990 Vol.40 No.4 pp.347-369

Doshi, R. R. (1990), Ideology and Functioning of the Shetkari Sanghatana in Maharashtra – An Assessment, in Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 45, Number 3

M.V. Nadkarni, Farmer’s Movements in India, Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 1987.

Mahipal Singh and Ajay Sahni, “The Kisan Factor”, Surya India, September 1989.

Doshi, R. R., (1990), Ideology and Functioning of the Shetkari Sanghatana in Maharashtra – An Assessment, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 45, issue Number 3, number 272430

Omvedt, Gail, Shetkari Sanghatana s New Direction, EPW 1991  [available on JSTOR]

G. O. “Farmers’ Movement: Fighting for Liberalisation.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 28, no. 50, 1993, pp. 2708–2710. www.jstor.org/stable/4400517.

Dhanagare, D.N. , The class character and politics of the farmers’ movement in Maharastra during the 1980s

Shetkari Sanghatana: Contribution of Sharad Joshi to Indian agriculture