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Dispossession without Development - Land Grabs in Neoliberal India (Paperback)
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Dispossession without Development - Land Grabs in Neoliberal India (Paperback)
Series: Modern South Asia
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Since the mid-2000s, India has been beset by widespread farmer
protests against "land grabs." Dispossession Without Development
demonstrates that beneath these conflicts lay a profound
transformation in the political economy of land dispossession.
While the postcolonial Indian state dispossessed land mostly for
public-sector industry and infrastructure, the adoption of
neoliberal economic policies in the early 1990s prompted state
governments to become land brokers for private real estate capital.
This new regime of dispossession culminated with private Special
Economic Zones (SEZs) in the mid-2000s. Using the case of a village
in Rajasthan that was dispossessed for one of North India's largest
SEZs, the book ethnographically illustrates how the zone's real
estate-driven and knowledge-intensive growth intersected with
pre-existing agrarian inequalities to generate a peculiar and
exclusionary trajectory of social change. Taking us into the lives
of diverse villagers, the book meticulously documents the
destruction of their agricultural livelihoods, the marginalization
of their labor, and their exclusion from the zone's "world-class"
infrastructure. Most poignantly, it shows farmers' unequal
capacities to profit from dramatic land speculation and the
consequences of this for village social relations and politics.
Illuminating the exclusionary trajectory of capitalism that
underlay land conflicts in contemporary India, Dispossession
Without Development also advances a novel theory of land
dispossession. This book will resonate in both India and many other
places where "land grabs" have fueled conflict in recent years.
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