Land and livelihoods in Neoliberal India / edited by Deepak K. Mishra & Pradeep Nayak.

1Introduction: The Political Economy Land and Livelihoods in Contemporary India Deepak K Mishra & Pradeep Nayak 2Land Titling or Land Reforms: India's Policy Dilemma Pradeep Nayak 3Ownership v/s Control: The Changing dynamics of land use in Liberalised Agricultural Context of India Sukhpal Singh 4Contextualizing Land Question in a Green Revolution Area: Agrarian Transformation and Politics in Western Uttar Pradesh Jagpal Singh 5Landowners as Non-farm Workers
A Case of Small Farmer Migrants in Karnataka Sheetal Patil & Seema Purushothaman 6Globalising Agrarian Markets and Changing Production Relations: Village-level Evidence from India Anish Gupta 7Land, Caste and Class in Rural West Bengal Dayabati Roy 8Agricultural Land Markets in India: A Case of Maharashtra Chirala Shankar Rao 9Dispossession, Neoliberal Urbanism and Societal Transformation: Insight into Rajarhat New Township in West Bengal Animesh Roy 10Land, Labour and Industrialisation in Rural and Urban Areas: A Case Study of Reliance SEZ in Gujarat Amita Shah, Aditi Patil & Dipak Nandani 11Neoliberal Governing as Production of Fantasy: Contemporary transformations in Ahmedabad's landscape Navdeep Mathur & Harsh Mittal 12The Expressway to Agra-Two Roads, Same Destination: Land Acquisition under Old and New Land Acquisition Regimes Prashant K Trivedi 13LARR 2013: What Does It Deliver?Dhanmanjiri Sathe 14Land Issues and Liberalisation in Northeast IndiaWalter Fernandes 15The Gendered Transformation of Land Rights and Feminisation of Hill Agriculture in Arunachal Pradesh: Insights from Field SurveyVandana Upadhyay

The book discusses important developments emerging around the land questions in India in the context of India's neoliberal economic development and its changing political economy. It covers many issues that have been impinging the political economy in land and livelihoods in India since the 1990s, examining the land question from diverse methodological standpoints. Most of the chapters rely on evidence generated through primary surveys in different parts of the country. The book, via its diversity of approaches and methodologies, brings out new and hitherto unexplored and/or less researched issues on the emerging land question in India. The range of issues addressed in the volume encompasses the contemporary developments in the political economy of land, land dispossession, SEZs, agrarian changes, urbanisation and the drive for the commodification of land across India.