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A Protest, a Veto and a Committee: The Story of a Farmers Protest Today, as peasants gather in Delhi to mark six months of one of the most popular protests in contemporary times, what lessons does a 1907 incident have? File image of farmers blocking a highway to mark 100 days of their ongoing protests against farm laws near New Delhi, March 6, 2021. Photo: PTI Rights26/May/2021 On May 26, 1907, Lord Minto, Viceroy and Governor General of India, put an end to one of the most intense popular peasant agitations in the Punjab Province by the exercise of a veto on the Colonisation Bill introduced in the Punjab Legislative Council in October 1906. ....
The ongoing farmer’s unrest reflects the growing chasm between India and Bharat. Share Via Email | A+A A- Farmers cultivate the land to feed the people. Politicians cultivate the farmers to rule the people. This divergence of interests has been the cause of farmers’ revolts in India from the Indigo revolt to Champaran satyagraha, the Bardoli Movement to the Telangana Peasant Revolt, and now. The ongoing farmer’s unrest reflects the growing chasm between India and Bharat. Both perceive development through their own prisms. Citizens attached with the soil do not understand the grammar of the urban dominated decision making mechanism. India’s quest for rural growth has been reduced to a confrontation between Farmers and the Rest. ....