What is it about?
In this paper I have dealt with the adverse socioeconomic impact of governmental land acquisition for industries in the West Bengal state in India under a pro-peasant leftist government under the overall climate of economic liberalization in India.
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Why is it important?
My work is unique because it not only dealt with the direct impact of land acquisition towards the impoverishment of the small land holding peasants but it also showed how acquisition could put a brake on land reforms and undermine the powers of local self-governments. Additionally, this kind of acquisition also creates food insecurity at the household level.
Perspectives
I believe that anthropological fieldwork should be conducted to study the ground realities of governmental land grab in the name of industrial development at the micro-level through for profit private industries, which instead of generating employment creates impoverishment and dispossession among the peasantry. The micro-level empirical data collected through ethnographic fieldwork gave me policy insights at the macro-level.
Professor Abhijit Guha
Institute of Development Studies Kolkata
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This page is a summary of: The Macro-Costs of Forced Displacement of the Farmers in India: A Micro-Level Study, European Journal of Development Research, January 2013, Nature,
DOI: 10.1057/ejdr.2012.37.
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