The Political Economy of Land Acquisition in India: How a Village Stops Being One

ISBN-13: 9789811053252 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 204 str.

Dhanmanjiri Sathe

Spis treści

1.   Introduction

1.1   Framing the Issue

1.2   The Business of Farmers’ Emotions

1.3   Plan of the book

 

2.  Eminent Domain, Right to Property and LARR 2013

2.1 Eminent Domain and the Indian Tradition

2.2 Eminent Domain in the Colonial Period --The Case of Mulshi Satyagraha

2.3 Eminent Domain in the post-Independence period and the Right to Property—till LARR 2013

2.4 Objections to Eminent Domain

2.5 LARR 2013 and after it

2.6 Issues in land Acquisition

 

3.  A Historical Detour and Background to Maan

3.1 A Historical Detour: The story of Pimple Saudagar and of Khadakwasala

3.2 The Economy of Maharashtra

3.3 Growth of Pune city; and the Maan village

3.4 Methodology and Profile of the Sample

 

4.  The Loss of Land and Compensation Issues

4.1 Contextuali

zing Acquisition of Land in Maan.

4.2 Modus operandi used by MIDC for Land acquisition

4.3 Findings with respect to Land Acquisition and Compensation

4.4 Protest Movement in Maan

4.5 Situation after the Agitations till 2015

 

5.  Growth In Maan

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Gains from Land Acquisition

5.3 Employment and Occupational Structure

5.4 Causal Factors Affecting Employment

5.5 Implications of land acquisition for land-losers and land-holders

5.6 Other Related Issues

 

6.  The Development of Maan

61. Introduction

6.2 Gram panchayat’s Budget: Changing Contours

6.3 Social Justice Expenditure

6.4 Education

6.5 Health Issues

6.6 Perceptions about Changes at Village Level

6.7 Aspirations and Future Plans

 

7.  Land Acquisition and the Dalits

7.1. Introduction

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.2  Data and Methodology

7.3 Comparison of dalit and non-dalit economic characteristics 

7.4 Comparison of daIit and non-dalits Index of Benefits Accrued (IOBA)

7.5 Comparison of Educational Patterns of Dalits and the Non-dalits

7.6 Comparison of Occupational Status of the dalits and non-dalits

7.7 Issues related to dignity, discrimination and dependence

7.8 Some qualitative observations

 

8.  Other Significant Changes in Maan

8.1. Agriculture in Maan

8.2 Migrants in Maan

8.3. Politics in Maan

8.4. Other interesting Observations

8.5 Comparison with Chakan

 

9.  Some Other Acquisitions in India and Learnings from this Study. – this chapter is being finalized.

9.1 The Nandigram-Singur Episode

9.2 The Story of Pune International Airport

9.3 Failed Acquisition in Raigad SEZ

9.4 Learnings from this Study

 

10.  Need for a Shift in Discourse?

 

O autorze

 Dhanmanjiri Sathe is Professor at the Savitribai Phule Pune University, Maharashtra, India. She was also a Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and has been a visiting faculty at the Goettingen University, Germany.

Blurb

This book examines key issues concerning land acquisition, and puts forward policy suggestions. Land acquisition is one of the most important issues besetting India’s political economy today. There have been many conflicts surrounding acquisitions; but there have been ample peaceful acquisitions, too. Growth in any economy requires more land.  Hence in India too, in the future more and more land will be required for the purposes of infrastructure expansion, industrialization, urbanization etc.

The book also examines a number of broader policy issues in the context of land reforms and shows how a successful resolution of the land acquisition matter is vital to attaining a high rate of growth. Using a case study method, the book examines the process of land acquisition in detail and its implications for farmers. It finds that the development of acquired land leads to higher growth and higher employment; and it also leads to improvements for the dalits (the backward class people). Benefits in terms of higher revenues for the government are also observed. It argues that, if the acquisition process is properly executed, those farmers who lose land will not oppose acquisition but will instead become partners in the process of growth.