People's car : industrial India and the riddles of populism / Sarasij Majumder.
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TextPublication details: New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2019.Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- HC435 .P467 2019
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; PEOPLE'S CAR; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Abbreviations; A Timeline of the Events in Singur; Introduction. Life Beyond Land: Aspirations, Ambivalence, and the Double Life of Development; 1. "We Are Chasis, Not Chasas": Emergence of Land-Based Subjectivities; 2. Land Is Like Gold: (In)commensurability and the Politics of Land; 3. Land Is Like a Mother: The Contradictions of Village-Level Protests; 4. "Peasants" Against Industrialization: Images of the Peasantry and Urban Activists' Representations of the Rural; Conclusion: Value Versus Values?
Postscript: From a Defunct Factory to a "Crematorium"Acknowledgments; Glossary; References; Index
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.
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