This volume contains an assortment of papers written by eminent activists, administrators, and scholars from India on development-induced displacement of indigenous people from their lands and livelihoods. Using a Bordieuxian framework to understand the economics of development from a sociological perspective, the book explores the type of society that India seems to be pursuing, where sections of the country’s population need to be cast aside to make way for others. The conclusion drawn is not how the various social groups respond to displacement, but how India’s society as a whole seems eager to use a developmentalist paradigm despite being fully aware of the inequalities and marginalization that such paradigms create.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sakarama Somayaji
Sakarama Somayaji is currently senior fellow at the Council for Social Development, New Delhi, earlier, he also served in the national dairy development Board. His main areas of interest are family studies, micro-level participatory rural planning, monitoring and evaluation, women empowerment, cooperative leadership, capacity and institutional building and developmental issues concerning adivasis, dalits, religious minorities and other weaker sections of the society.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Susmita Dasgupta
Susmita Dasgupta has a PhD on Amitabh Bachchan from Delhi `s Jawaharlal Nehru University . She has also been a Senior Fellow at the National Film Archive of India, Pune, where she worked on the history of ideas of Indian popular cinema since its inception. She teaches film appreciation in management schools. She works as a deputy chief economist with the economic research unit of the ministry of steel. She has over seventy publications in esteemed journals that cover issues of sociology, media and political economy. Her forthcoming book is an appreciation of Deewar .
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