What is it about?
In this book chapter I narrated my long encounters at various sites about how land acquisition for private industries took place in West Bengal state of India.
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Why is it important?
This study is important because it revealed how land grab by the government led to the policy failures in West Bengal under the rule of a pro-peasant leftist government.
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I have viewed the industrialization move by the government in relation to agriculture, land reform and local self-government which are not usually taken into consideration by the policy makers.
Professor Abhijit Guha
Institute of Development Studies Kolkata
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This page is a summary of: An Ethnographer’s Journey through Land Grab for Capitalists by the Left Front Government in West Bengal, May 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198792444.003.0013.
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