The Indian Farmers’ Fight

<p>After a landslide re-election in 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s control over India seemed impossible to challenge.</p><p>But a yearlong farmers’ protest against agricultural overhauls has done just that, forcing the Indian prime minister to back down.</p><p>How did the protesters succeed?</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/emily-schmall">Emily Schmall</a>, a South Asia correspondent for The New York Times.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/signup/NTTD?smid=pc-thedaily">Sign up here</a> to get The Daily in your inbox each morning. And for an exclusive look at how the biggest stories on our show come together, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/the-daily?module=inline">subscribe to our newsletter</a>. </p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>The protesters received foreign and domestic financial support, kept their camps organized and looked for ways to be seen while<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/20/world/asia/india-modi-farmer-protests.html?smid=tw-share"> trying to avoid violence</a>.</li><li>How a bungled response to Covid and a struggling economy have<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/world/asia/india-farmers-modi.html"> hurt the governing party’s standing</a> in India.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. </p>