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Shreya Sinha
Shreya Sinha is a senior lecturer in business and society at Queen Mary University of London. Her work is on agrarian political economy, political ecology and development theory.
Rice procurement by the state in Punjab’s regulated markets has plummeted this year. In the mundane details of grain purchases lie hidden and fraught centre-state relations and reforms by stealth.
The protests in Punjab are happening at a time when the agrarian economy is under stress. With increasing uncertainty, previously antagonistic groups across classes, castes & gender are coming…