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199197 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.199197 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ All Rights Reserved 2024 93 pages Masters Thesis Academic theses Text eng Kaur, Anantdeep Behl, Natasha Firoz, Malay Colbern, Allan Arizona State University Partial requirement for: M.A., Arizona State University, 2024 Field of study: Social Justice and Human Rights India witnessed the world’s biggest protest in 2020 by farmers against three farm laws passed by an authoritarian Hindu nationalist government. This protest got worldwide attention as it lasted more than a year. The farm laws aimed to deregulate India’s agricultural markets by promoting contract farming to benefit the corporate sector. Instead of accepting their fate, farmers nationwide challenged the Modi government boldly. This project aims to analyze the long struggle of Indian farmers and their resistance and mass protest against state violence and how they forced fascist political leaders to repeal laws that were against the sustainability of a way of life rooted in land. In the bigger picture, this research focuses on analyzing repressive state policies against the agricultural class to destroy traditional markets of agriculture and give agrarian industry to private firms. The most remarkable aspect of this movement is that through it, the hopeless democratic structure of the country regained its essence. It restored the constitutional values of unity and association among Indians. My research project explains the details of this organized protest, which got global support and attention and established the role of such social movements in claiming fundamental rights. This research will rely on an interpretive research design that includes open-ended, in-depth interviews with the co-founder and co-editor, Navkiran Nath, of the newspaper Trolley Times, which emerged within this protest, and a translation from Punjabi and Hindi language to English and analysis of a newspaper, “Trolley Times’. Political Science Democracy social movements Farmers' Protest: A Movement Against Fascist Regime in India