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020			_a9780198815297
082			_a333.3230954 _bLAN-
245			_aLand Question in India _b: state, dispossession, and capitalist transition
260			_aNew Delhi _c2017 _bOxford University Press
300			_axxi, 335p.
520			_aThis volume takes a fresh look at the land question in India. Instead of re-engaging in the rich transition debate in which the transformation of agriculture is seen as a necessary historical step to usher in dynamic capitalist (or socialist) development, this collection critically 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 the acquisition of land by (local) states for infrastructure development and to support accumulation strategies of private business through industrialization. <br />Land in India is sought for non-agricultural purposes such as purchasing land to reduce risk and real estate development. The land is also central to tribal communities (Adivasis), whose livelihoods depend on it and on a moral economy that is independent of any price-driven markets. Adivasis tend to hold on to such property, not as individual owners for profit, but for collective security and to protect a way of life. Thus land, notwithstanding its role in the accumulation process, has been and continues to be, a turbulent arena in which classes, castes and communities are in conflict with each other, with the state and with capital, jockeying to determine the terms and conditions of land transactions or their prevention, through both market and non-market mechanisms. The volume goes beyond the traditional political economy of the agrarian transition question and deals with, inter alia, distributional conflicts arising from the acquisition of land by the state for capital accumulation on the one hand and its commodification on the other. It provides new analytical insights into the land acquisition processes, their legal-institutional and ethical implications and the multifaceted regional diversity of acquisition experiences in India.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aLand Grabs _vTransition to capitalism _vLaw and legislation - india _zIndia
700			_aD'Costa, Anthony P.
700			_aChakraborty, Achin
942			_cBK _2ddc