The Land question in India : state, dispossession, and capitalist transition / edited by Anthony P. D'Costa and Achin Chakraborty

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TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017Description: xxi, 335p. ; 24cmISBN:

9780198815297

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333.30954 DCO 22

Summary: This book takes a fresh look at the land question in India. It 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.

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This book takes a fresh look at the land question in India. It 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.

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