Political Economy of Land Dispossession in India: Unravelling the Changing Diachronic Paradigms
摘要
Dispossession of peasants from their means of subsistence (farmland) in contemporary India happens to be a focal point of debate and movement. This entry aims to briefly illustrate why state-mediated large-scale land dispossession as a means to variegated ‘development activities’ in colonial, post-colonial and neoliberal India became inevitably necessary, and how contemporary dispossession of peasants in India captures agrarian populism.