The Land Question in India : State, Dispossession, and Capitalist Transition / edited by Anthony P. D'Costa and Achin Chakraborty.
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 experien...
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| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; The Land Question in India: State, Dispossession, and Capitalist Transition; Copyright; Preface and Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; List of Contributors; Prelude: Land and the Political Management of Primitive Accumulation; The People as a Political Construct; The Concept of Primitive Accumulation; Luxemburgś Elaboration; Primitive Accumulation in Large Agrarian Countries; The Political Problem of Primitive Accumulation; Political Society as a Field of Negotiation; Populism as the Political Form of Mass Democracy.
- To ConcludeReferences; 1: The Land Question in India: State, Dispossession, and Capitalist Transition; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Land and Capitalist Transition Today; 1.3 State, Development, and Dispossession; 1.4 Brief ChapterDescriptions and Integration; 1.4.1 Primitive and Contemporary Accumulation; 1.4.2 Legal-Institutional Dimensions of ``Regimes of Dispossession;́́ 1.4.3 Regional Perspectives; Notes; References; Part I: Primitive and Contemporary Accumulation; 2: From Primitive Accumulation to Regimes of Dispossession: Theses on Indiaś Land Question; 2.1 Introduction.
- 2.2 Six Theses on the Indian Land Question2.3 Conclusion; Notes; References; 3: Land Grabs, Primitive Accumulation, and Resistance in Neoliberal India: Persistence of the Self-Employed and Divergence ... ; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Mechanisms of Land Grabs; 3.2.1 The Neoliberal Policy Regime and Its Influence; 3.2.2 Land Acquisition by Force and Manipulation; 3.2.3 Land Alienation without the Use of Force; 3.2.4 Indirect Mechanisms of Land Alienation; 3.3 Resistance and Contestations; 3.4 Trends in the Composition of the Indian Workforce.
- 3.4.1 Trends in the Composition of the Indian Workforce by Employment Status3.5 Interpreting Trends in Wage Work and Self-Employment; 3.5.1 Divergence from the ``Transition to Capitalism?́́; 3.5.2 Self-Employed Producers and Circuits of Capital; 3.5.3 Outcomes of Land Acquisition for a Special Economic Zone; 3.6 Concluding Remarks; 3.6.1 Mechanisms of Primitive Accumulation and ABD; 3.6.2 Factors Shaping Primitive Accumulation and Its Outcomes; 3.6.3 Factors Sustaining Self-Employment in the Indian Workforce; 3.6.4 Prospects of the Transition to Capitalism in India; Acknowledgments; Notes.