TY  - BOOK
AU  - Majumder,Sarasij
TI  - People's car: industrial India and the riddles of populism 
SN  - 9780823284849
AV  - HC435 .P467 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Fordham University Press
KW  - Industrialization
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Populism
KW  - Automobile industry and trade
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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