Modi Can Ignore Farmers’ Fury and Push Rural Reforms

Over the past weeks, farmers in India have gathered to protest what they call Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “surrender” to President Donald Trump over trade. They burned symbolic copies of the deal; they had to, since they didn’t have any actual text.

The US-India framework agreement, like most of the slapdash settlements that Washington has arrived at over the past year, is still a work in progress. We don’t know for certain what bits of Indian agriculture will be affected — and neither do the protestors. They might not be affected at all. But that won’t stop them protesting, nor Modi from worrying.