Land for industry: state-society relations in agrarian Maharashtra

Thesis

Usurping land and driving communities off it has been at the heart of state-driven ‘development’ processes in India since its independence from British colonial rule. Post-independence India has seen large-scale land dispossession for the grand ideological purpose of ‘nation-building’ through dams, industries, mines and ports. The conversion of rural farmland, commons, and forests has gone hand in hand with dispossession and displacement. In neoliberal India, land continues to be converted...

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Authors: Chatterjee, M

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: dispossession; land; agrarian change
• Subjects: development studies; Area studies libraries--Collection development; Economic development