The land question in India :

The land question in India : state, dispossession, and capitalist transition / [edited by] Anthony P. D'Costa, Achin Chakraborty. - 1st edition. - xxi, 335 pages : map ; 24 cm

"The chapters are mostly drawn from a three-day conference held in March 2014 at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata .. " -- p. vi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1.The Land Question in India: State, Dispossession, and Capitalist Transition /​ Achin Chakraborty
pt. I Primitive and Contemporary Accumulation
2.From Primitive Accumulation to Regimes of Dispossession: Theses on India's Land Question /​ Michael Levien
3.Land Grabs, Primitive Accumulation, and Resistance in Neoliberal India: Persistence of the Self-Employed and Divergence from the "Transition to Capitalism"? /​ Shapan Adrian
4.Agrarian Crisis and Accumulation in Rural India: Locating the Land Question within the Agrarian Question /​ Arindam Banerjee
pt. II Legal-Institutional Dimensions of "Regimes of Dispossession"
5.Law Struggles, Lawmaking, and the Politics of Hegemony in Neoliberal India: Toward a Critical Perspective on the 2013 Land Acquisition Act /​ Alf Gunvald Nilsen
6.Land Acquisition and "Fair Compensation" of the "Project Affected": Scrutiny of the Law and Its Interpretation /​ Malabika Pal
Contents note continued: 7.The Adivasi Land Question in the Neoliberal Era /​ Kaveri Gill
pt. III Regional Perspectives
8.Noncultivating Households Owning Land in an Agrarian Economy: Some Observations from Andhra Pradesh /​ R. Vijay
9.Land and/​or Labor? Predicament of Petty Commodity Producers among South Indian Villages /​ R. V. Ramana Murthy
10.Land Reform in Kerala and West bengal: Two Stories of Left Reformism and Development /​ Anirban Dasgupta
11.How Much Land Does a Capitalist Need? Historical Patterns of Land Acquisition and Indian Industrialization /​ Mircea Raianu
12.An Ethnographer's Journey through Land Grab for Capitalists by the Left Front Government in West Bengal /​ Abhijit Guha
13.Land and Dispossession: The Criticalities in the Hills of Northeast India /​ Asok Kumar Ray.

Examines the centrality of land in contemporary development discourse in India and the role of the state in the dispossession of land from peasants and tribal communities. It looks at land acquisition processes, their legal and ethical implications, and the regional diversity of acquisition experiences in India.

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Land use--Government policy--India--Congresses.
Land tenure--Government policy--India --Congresses.

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