Peasants Betrayed: Essays in India's Colonial History

Kapil Kumar's research on peasant struggles and their relationship with the national movement takes into account the myriad complexities involved in order to understand the contemporary realities that confront rural India. He argues that there was a definite move by the dominant leaders, big businesses and the landed aristocracy to suppress the peasants-an approach very much still in practice today. Hence, the need for a historical perspective.