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The Land Question in India - State, Dispossession, and Capitalist Transition (Hardcover)
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The Land Question in India - State, Dispossession, and Capitalist Transition (Hardcover)
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This volume takes a fresh look at the land question in India.
Instead of re-engaging in the rich transition debate in which the
transformation of agriculture is seen as a necessary historical
step to usher in dynamic capitalist (or socialist) development,
this collection critically examines the centrality of land in
contemporary development discourse in India. Consequently, the
focus is on the role of the state in pushing a process of
dispossession of peasants through direct expropriation for
developmental purposes such as acquisition of land by (local)
states for infrastructure development and to support accumulation
strategies of private business through industrialization. Land in
India is sought for non-agricultural purposes such as purchasing
land to reduce risk and real estate development. Land is also
central to tribal communities (adivasis), whose livelihoods depend
on it and on a moral economy that is independent of any
price-driven markets. Adivasis tend to hold on to such property,
not as individual owners for profit, but for collective security
and to protect a way of life. Thus land, notwithstanding its role
in the accumulation process, has been, and continues to be, a
turbulent arena in which classes, castes, and communities are in
conflict with each other, with the state, and with capital,
jockeying to determine the terms and conditions of land
transactions or their prevention, through both market and
non-market mechanisms. The volume goes beyond the traditional
political economy of the agrarian transition question, and deals
with, inter alia, distributional conflicts arising from acquisition
of land by the state for capital accumulation on the one hand and
its commodification on the other. It provides new analytical
insights into the land acquisition processes, their
legal-institutional and ethical implications, and the multifaceted
regional diversity of acquisition experiences in India.
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