Sarasij Majumder

People's Car

Industrial India and the Riddles of Populism

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Produktbeschreibung

People's Car studies divergent populist responses to land acquisition for industries in rural India. It contends that landownership enables small landowners to aspire and look forward to social mobility in the non-farm sector, which are contingent upon industrialization. The protests against land acquisition, thus, have contradictory tendencies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 236mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780823282425
• ISBN-10: 0823282422
• Artikelnr.: 51497466

Autorenporträt

Sarasij Majumder

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations ix A Timeline of the Events in Singur xi Introduction. Life Beyond Land: Aspirations, Ambivalence, and the Double Life of Development 1 1.
We Are Chasis, Not Chasas
: Emergence of Land-Based Subjectivities 33 2. Land Is Like Gold: (In)commensurability and the Politics of Land 62 3. Land Is Like a Mother: The Contradictions of Village-Level Protests 100 4.
Peasants
Against Industrialization: Images of the Peasantry and Urban Activists
Representations of the Rural 131 Conclusion: Value Versus Values? 153 Postscript: From a Defunct Factory to a
Crematorium
167 Acknowledgments 171 Glossary 175 References 177 Index 193 Photographs follow page 14