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At the risk of sounding like a   broken record Sabhlok on Modi who seems to have some odd personal vendetta against the PM, in this case he is proven right. For long subsidized crops at fixed prices were the bane of Indian farming which led to stagnation of small farmers and large farmers corruptly colluding with the central government where they will find a ready buyer and thwart competition from foreign markets regardless.U.S pretty much has the same story Farm Subsidies Put India in a Bind (Wall Street Journal story which I wont link for reasons given in comments below) “The market support…encourages farmers to produce much more of the subsidized commodities than they would have otherwise, exacerbating the global glut.” In other words subsidized crops led to over supply which in turn led to low prices and this put a farmer in an uncomfortable quandry. What is the solution, well subsidize them some more of course as per Modi thus perpetuating poverty f...

I had been participating on historum on and off for last 8 months or so. In the process of quarelling with some Paki propagandists I had been suspended. Recently I came across a Rajput apologist called "Bhrigu" talking trash about south Indians so I decided to give him the treatment. You can find the full exchange here. This lily livered coward at first claimed that he would not engage me anymore but after my response to him, he reported me , had me banned for multi accounting(guilty is charged) and then went ahead with incoherent rubbish below. His text is italics, my response in normal. ................ You make many bizarre allegations and insuniations here which I want to address before I go further. I am by no means a Maratha basher and no , not even a Rajput basher. I simply want to point that each community has a mixed record with its own pluses and minuses. None of the south Indian posters implied Rajputs were anyhow inferior but YOU were the one who br...