ABSTRACT

This chapter presents some closing thoughts of the key concepts covered in this book. The book is an account of a century of political actions of the peasants centred on land, nationalist identity and resources. It has portrayed both a picture of the difficult times of peasants and a chronicle of their never-ending struggle for rights and for undoing injustice. Despite the sharecroppers' integral role in spearheading the peasant mobilization, it was the landless peasants who came to the centre stage of peasant politics. Thousands of them were mobilized by the slogan of 'land to the landless'. Early in the twenty-first century, a left-wing peasant organization, christened as Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS), temporarily mobilized these faceless peasants. Its political programme revolves around the issues of land reform, abolition of money lending and land settlement for the landless peasants.