Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India

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Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India is written by Kenneth Bo Nielsen and published by Anthem Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 178308748X (ISBN 10) and 9781783087488 (ISBN 13).

Over the past decade India has witnessed a number of land wars that have centred crucially on the often forcible transfer of land from small farmers or indigenous groups to private companies. Among these, the land war that erupted in Singur, West Bengal, in 2006, went on to make national headlines and become paradigmatic of many of the challenges and social conflicts that arise when a state-led policy of swiftly transferring land to private sector companies encounters resistance on the ground. Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India analyses the movement by Singur’s so-called unwilling farmers to retain and reclaim their farmland. By foregrounding the everyday politics of popular mobilization, the book sheds new light on the movement’s internal politics as well as on contentious issues rooted in everyday caste, class and gender relations.