Land and Livelihoods in Neoliberal India

The book discusses important developments emerging around the land questions in India in the context of Indias neoliberal economic development and its changing political economy. It covers many issues that have been impinging the political economy in land and livelihoods in India since the 1990s, examining the land question from diverse methodological standpoints. Most of the chapters rely on evidence generated through primary surveys in different parts of the country. The book, via its diversity of approaches and methodologies, brings out new and hitherto unexplored and/or less researched issues on the emerging land question in India. The range of issues addressed in the volume encompasses the contemporary developments in the political economy of land, land dispossession, SEZs, agrarian changes, urbanisation and the drive for the commodification of land across India. The authors also examine role of the state in promoting the capitalist transformation in India and continuities and changes emerging in the context of land liberalisation and market-friendly economic reforms.

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Political Economy Land and Livelihoods in Contemporary India -- Chapter 2 Land Titling or Land Reforms: Indias Policy Dilemma -- Chapter 3 Ownership v/s Control: The Changing dynamics of land use in Liberalised Agricultural Context of India -- Chapter 4 Contextualizing Land Question in a Green Revolution Area: Agrarian Transformation and Politics in Western Uttar Pradesh -- Chapter 5 Landowners as Non-farm Workers -- A Case of Small Farmer Migrants in Karnataka -- Chapter 6 Globalising Agrarian Markets and Changing Production Relations: Village-level Evidence from India -- Chapter 7 -- Land, Caste and Class in Rural West Bengal -- Chapter 8 Agricultural Land Markets in India: A Case of Maharashtra -- Chapter 9 Dispossession, Neoliberal Urbanism and Societal Transformation: Insight into Rajarhat New Township in West Bengal -- Chapter 10 Land, Labour and Industrialisation in Rural and Urban Areas: A Case Study of Reliance SEZ in Gujarat -- Chapter 11 Neoliberal Governing as Production of Fantasy: Contemporary transformations in Ahmedabads landscape -- Chapter 12 The Expressway to Agra-Two Roads, Same Destination: Land Acquisition under Old and New Land Ac…