What is it about?
This is an article on how the politicians in West Bengal state in India debated and viewed land acquisition. The data were mainly collected from the West Bengal assembly proceedings records.
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Why is it important?
It is a unique paper on land acquisition in India, because there is no other work on this topic which consulted the assembly proceedings record.
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I learnt a lot of new things while collecting the dialogues of politicians on governmental land grab. For example whoever in power supported land acquisition and whoever in the opposition opposed it.
Professor Abhijit Guha
Institute of Development Studies Kolkata
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This page is a summary of: Clever Dialogues of the Politicians, February 2022, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781003290551-6.
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