Title: Agrarian Imagination Under Siege
Subtitle: India's Farmers Against the Global Agri-Cartel—chronicling resistance to corporate enclosures
Description: This collection brings together 19 essays centred on India’s agrarian crisis written between 2015 and early 2026. All the chapters were originally published as standalone articles or as a composite of several such pieces. The collection serves as a single access point. It is intended that the text may be of use to researchers, activists and movements working on agrarian and food‑system issues.

It conveniently brings together a selection of my writing on India previously scattered across several books, print publications and digital platforms. As an archive, this collection is not necessarily intended to be read linearly from start to finish. Readers may wish to dip in and out. Each essay is self-contained.

While the essays focus on India, the questions they raise transcend national boundaries. The forces reshaping India’s countryside—corporate capture of food systems, erosion of rural livelihoods and the struggle to defend local autonomy—are global in scope. Readers, wherever they may reside, will recognise parallels in their own societies, as the same logics of commodification and control transform landscapes and lives across the world.

This volume is more than a record of economic struggle; it is a chronicle of a war on life itself, on our connection to nature and the land, on what it means to be human. Behind the memoranda of understanding and the digital control grids lies an attempt to strip the 'soul' from Indian agriculture and rural India. This archive documents the refusal of millions to be reduced to data points.
Subjects: Food Sovereignty, Agrarian Studies, Kisan Andolan, Farmers Protest India, Neoliberal Agriculture, Imperialism, Neo-colonialism, Corporate Capture, Agribusiness, Agrarianism