• DR RITABRATA TARAFDER

In Marxian literature, the predicament of the people belonging to the lower stratum of class hierarchy has always had greater priority. Considering peasant as a very important political entity, it opens up the question of the land relation to a specific type of mode of production as specified by Marx himself. Marxist literature traced mainly four tires of agricultural hierarchy under capitalism-day labourers, small peasant, middle peasant, big landed estate owners. The socialist resolution is unambiguous about the transformation process of rural peasantry. The challenge was to protect the interest of the rural peasants as a future propertied peasant without compromising the principles of socialist programmes. To meet this challenge, socialists as well as many democratic countries like India introduced a theoretical preamble with reform proposals that sought to protect the small peasant’s property from the destruction of capitalist mode of production. However, in Marxian discourse of land reforms- class has mostly been defined in terms of power and property; the notion of class processes were incorporated later on and presently the issues of non-class processes which may have conformity to the social, cultural, political as well as economic aspects, in the absence of which the entire class process will be jeopardized, have been introduced and discussed in the Postmodern Marxist literature. In the conjecture, we will exam how did India experienced a gradual transformation from exploitative class process towards non-exploitative (independent, communitic or communistic) class processes.

Marxian literature, Agriculture, Land reforms, Class process

"Indian agriculture in view of Postmodern Marxist literature", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 5, page no.l221-l228, May-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2305B32.pdf

"Indian agriculture in view of Postmodern Marxist literature", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 5, page no. ppl221-l228, May-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2305B32.pdf