Industrialising rural India: land, policy and resistance
Industrialising rural India: land, policy and resistance
- London Routledge 2017
- 200 p. Includes illustration, bibliographical reference and index
- Routledge studies of the extractive industries and sustainable development .
Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction
1. Industrialising Rural India
Patrik Oskarsson and Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Part 2: Policy Evolution
2. ‘The Dog that didn’t Bark’ (Very Loud) – Large-scale Development Projects with Little Protests in Nehru’s India
Jørgen Dige Pedersen
3. From State-led Development to Embedded Neo-liberalism: India’s Industrial and Social Policies in Comparative Perspective
Stein Sundstøl Eriksen
4. ‘Should the Son of a Farmer always remain a Farmer?’ The Ambivalence of Industrialisation and Resistance in West Bengal
Sarasij Majumder and Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Part 4: Governing Nature and Society
5. Coal as National Development in India: Transforming Landscapes and Social Relations in the Quest for Energy Security
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
6. A Different Story of Coal: The Power of Power in Northeast India
Bengt G. Karlsson
7. The Nature of Bauxite Mining and Adivasi Livelihoods in the Industrialisation of Eastern India
Patrik Oskarsson
8. Resource Extraction in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum: The Continuing Marginalisation of Adivasi Livelihoods Despite Decentralisation
Siddharth Sareen
Part 4: The Ambiguity of Resistance
9. Rural Industry, the Forest Rights Act, and the Performance(s) of Proof
Prakruti Ramesh
10. ‘We will need a Passport to Enter the Site’: Envisioning Land, Industrialisation, and the State in Goa
Heather Plumridge Bedi
Rapid industrialisation is promoted by many as the most feasible way of rejuvenating the Indian economy, and as a way of generating employment on a large scale. At the same time, the transfer of land from rural communities and indigenous groups for industrial parks, mining, or Special Economic Zones has emerged as perhaps the most explosive issue in India over the past decade. Industrialising Rural India sheds light on crucial political and social dynamics that unfold today as India seeks to accelerate industrial growth. The volume examines key aspects that are implicated in current processes of industrialisation in rural India, including the evolution of industrial and related policies; the contested role of land transfers, dispossession, and the destruction of the natural resource base more generally; and the popular resistance against industrial projects, extractive industries and Special Economic Zones.
Combining the work of scholars long established in their respective fields with the refreshing approach of younger scholars, Industrialising Rural India seeks to chart new ways in the study of contemporary industrialisation and its associated challenges in India. This cutting-edge interdisciplinary work will be of interest to scholars working on industrial development and land questions in India and South Asia alongside those with an interest in sociology, political science and development research.
https://www.routledge.com/Industrialising-Rural-India-Land-policy-and-resistance-1st-Edition/Nielsen-Oskarsson/p/book/9781138936713
9781138936713
Industrialization - India
Rural development
Land use, Rural
Rural industries
307.14120954 / I6
Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction
1. Industrialising Rural India
Patrik Oskarsson and Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Part 2: Policy Evolution
2. ‘The Dog that didn’t Bark’ (Very Loud) – Large-scale Development Projects with Little Protests in Nehru’s India
Jørgen Dige Pedersen
3. From State-led Development to Embedded Neo-liberalism: India’s Industrial and Social Policies in Comparative Perspective
Stein Sundstøl Eriksen
4. ‘Should the Son of a Farmer always remain a Farmer?’ The Ambivalence of Industrialisation and Resistance in West Bengal
Sarasij Majumder and Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Part 4: Governing Nature and Society
5. Coal as National Development in India: Transforming Landscapes and Social Relations in the Quest for Energy Security
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
6. A Different Story of Coal: The Power of Power in Northeast India
Bengt G. Karlsson
7. The Nature of Bauxite Mining and Adivasi Livelihoods in the Industrialisation of Eastern India
Patrik Oskarsson
8. Resource Extraction in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum: The Continuing Marginalisation of Adivasi Livelihoods Despite Decentralisation
Siddharth Sareen
Part 4: The Ambiguity of Resistance
9. Rural Industry, the Forest Rights Act, and the Performance(s) of Proof
Prakruti Ramesh
10. ‘We will need a Passport to Enter the Site’: Envisioning Land, Industrialisation, and the State in Goa
Heather Plumridge Bedi
Rapid industrialisation is promoted by many as the most feasible way of rejuvenating the Indian economy, and as a way of generating employment on a large scale. At the same time, the transfer of land from rural communities and indigenous groups for industrial parks, mining, or Special Economic Zones has emerged as perhaps the most explosive issue in India over the past decade. Industrialising Rural India sheds light on crucial political and social dynamics that unfold today as India seeks to accelerate industrial growth. The volume examines key aspects that are implicated in current processes of industrialisation in rural India, including the evolution of industrial and related policies; the contested role of land transfers, dispossession, and the destruction of the natural resource base more generally; and the popular resistance against industrial projects, extractive industries and Special Economic Zones.
Combining the work of scholars long established in their respective fields with the refreshing approach of younger scholars, Industrialising Rural India seeks to chart new ways in the study of contemporary industrialisation and its associated challenges in India. This cutting-edge interdisciplinary work will be of interest to scholars working on industrial development and land questions in India and South Asia alongside those with an interest in sociology, political science and development research.
https://www.routledge.com/Industrialising-Rural-India-Land-policy-and-resistance-1st-Edition/Nielsen-Oskarsson/p/book/9781138936713
9781138936713
Industrialization - India
Rural development
Land use, Rural
Rural industries
307.14120954 / I6