Dispossession without development : land grabs in neoliberal India / Michael Levien

By:

Levien, Michael

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2018Description: xxviii, 332p. ; 24cmISBN:

9780190915513

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DDC classification:

333.3154 LEV 22

Summary: Since the mid-2000s, India has been beset by widespread farmer protests against land dispossession. This book demonstrates that beneath these conflicts lay a profound shift in regimes of dispossession.Using the case of a village in Rajasthan that was dispossessed for a private Special Economic Zone, the book ethnographically illustrates the exclusionary trajectory of capitalism driving dispossession in contemporary India. Taking us into the lives of diverse villagers in "Rajpura," the book meticulously documents the destruction of agricultural livelihoods, the marginalization of rural labour, the spatial unevenness of infrastructure provision and the dramatic consequences of real estate speculation for social inequality and village politics.

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Since the mid-2000s, India has been beset by widespread farmer protests against land dispossession. This book demonstrates that beneath these conflicts lay a profound shift in regimes of dispossession.Using the case of a village in Rajasthan that was dispossessed for a private Special Economic Zone, the book ethnographically illustrates the exclusionary trajectory of capitalism driving dispossession in contemporary India. Taking us into the lives of diverse villagers in "Rajpura," the book meticulously documents the destruction of agricultural livelihoods, the marginalization of rural labour, the spatial unevenness of infrastructure provision and the dramatic consequences of real estate speculation for social inequality and village politics.

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