Land Dispossession And Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India
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Land Dispossession And Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India

  1. 234 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Land Dispossession And Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India

About this book

Over the past decade India has witnessed a number of land wars that have centred crucially on the often forcible transfer of land from small farmers or indigenous groups to private companies. Among these, the land war that erupted in Singur, West Bengal, in 2006, went on to make national headlines and become paradigmatic of many of the challenges and social conflicts that arise when a state-led policy of swiftly transferring land to private sector companies encounters resistance on the ground. Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India analyses the movement by Singur's so-called unwilling farmers to retain and reclaim their farmland. By foregrounding the everyday politics of popular mobilization, the book sheds new light on the movement's internal politics as well as on contentious issues rooted in everyday caste, class and gender relations.

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Information

Publisher
Anthem Press
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781783087471
eBook ISBN
9781783087495

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Tables
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter One Situating Singur
  10. Chapter Two Land, Identity and the Politics of Representation
  11. Chapter Three Law, Judicialization and the Politics of Waiting
  12. Chapter Four Class, Caste and Community
  13. Chapter Five Gendered Mobilization: Women as Activists and Symbols
  14. Chapter Six Activist Leadership
  15. Chapter Seven Ma, Mati, Manush – Mamata
  16. Conclusion
  17. Glossary
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index