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Dispossession of peasants from their means of subsistence (farmland) in contemporary India happens to be a focal point of debate and movement. This essay aims to briefly illustrate why state-mediated large-scale land dispossession as a means to variegated ‘development activities’ in colonial, post-colonial and neoliberal India became inevitably necessary, and how contemporary dispossession of peasants in India captures agrarian populism.
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Roy, A. (2023). Political Economy of Land Dispossession in India: Unravelling the Changing Diachronic Paradigms. In: Chacko Chennattuserry, J., Deshpande, M., Hong, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of New Populism and Responses in the 21st Century. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9859-0_22-1
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