Majumder, Sarasij author

People's car: industrial India and the riddles of populism / Sarasij Majumder. - Hyderabad : Orient BlackSwan, 2019. - 198 p.; 24 cm.

Includes glossary and index.

Includes bibliographical references.

People's Car studies divergent populist responses to land acquisition for industries in rural India. It contends that landownership enables small landowners to aspire and look forward to social mobility in the non-farm sector, which are contingent upon industrialization. The protests against land acquisition, thus, have contradictory tendencies.

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Politics of land
Land economics--Peasantry --India
Land tenure--Land Acquisition - Economic aspects--India

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