Juri Baruah* Farmers’ Movement in the context of Land in Assam PhD candidate, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati Campus Email: juribaruah33@gmail.com Abstract The major emphasis of this paper is the farmers' struggle in Assam and how it leads to primary issues such as land rights and land access. With a special reference to the farmers’ movement at Doyang and Tengani in Golaghat district of Assam for land rights, the paper deals with the signifcance of the land issue in the Brahmaputra valley regarding citizenship questions and immigration. Land as a resource is a medium of proving indigeneity in the valley which is represented diferently between the indigenous Axomiya and the Miya settlers. This political rhetoric is personifed through displacement and eviction that are prime forces in the state for the last two decades. Several evictions show how much farmer communities are insecure regarding land accessibility and have to shift from agriculture to being daily wage earners. It also analyses the silence of farmers in Assam during the anti-farm bills agitation. Key words: farmers’ movement, land, land rights, food sovereignty Introduction Throughout Indian history, farmers are infuenced by the political climate of the country and have created several spaces for resistance. Farmers’ movements help to articulate the struggle within the power structure, and confgure the attitude of collective action and participation. Geographically, India is a country of undulating topography where the monsoon as a seasonal variation plays a major role in the production of agriculture. According to Beteille (2007:76), the areas with a larger number of agrarian revolts are predominantly rice-producing areas. These regions have the advantage of a large proportion of agricultural labourers and also have the disadvantage of the unequal division of land among those who cultivate, either as tenants or owners. Politically farmers are found to occupy an “underdog position and are subject to domination by outsiders” (Shanin 1984). They are also treated as unorganised and deprived of the knowledge required for organised collective action. Historically, farmers have always