People's Car: Industrial India and the Riddles of Populism

Sarasij Majumder

Published by Fordham University Press 2019

People's Car

Industrial India and the Riddles of Populism

Sarasij Majumder

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823282449

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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.

A careful ethnography of the complex interactions and desires within a single community experiencing the pressures of globalization.

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Majumder Sarasij :

Sarasij Majumder is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies at Kennesaw State University.Sarasij Majumder is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies at Kennesaw State University.

Reviews

Vinay Gidwani, University of Minnesota:
“Amid a glut of work on the urban global South, it is refreshing to read a book that strives to think the contemporary dynamics of development and agrarian change ethnographically. The book convincingly argues that the romanticized portrayals of either the communitarian peasant (commonplace in activist portrayals) or the irrational peasant (commonplace in policy circles and certain quarters of disciplinary economics) miss the point. Land, Majumder argues, is a vessel of personhood and unrequited desires. Attentive to the conflicted sentiments and desires of its peasant informants, the book refreshingly refuses to toe a clear ideological line. This well-crafted, clearly written book poses important questions of broad relevance to contemporary India and beyond.”

Geeta Patel, University of Virginia:
“People’s Car offers an extraordinarily valuable take on a major movement against the acquisition of land for development, in the case of a Tata Motors car factory. The factory becomes the alibi for nuanced interrogations, both material and theoretical, of resistance, anthropology, economics, political economies, rural-scapes and the very nature and idea of land.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
A Timeline of the Events in Singur Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction. Life Beyond Land: Aspirations, Ambivalence, and the Double Life of Development Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
chapter 1. “We Are Chasi, Not Chasa”: Emergence of Land-Based Subjectivities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
chapter 2. Land Is Like Gold: (In)commensurability and the Politics of Land Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
chapter 3. Land Is Like a Mother: The Contradictions of Village- Level Protests Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
chapter 4. “Peasants” Against Industrialization: Images of the Peasantry and Urban Activists’ Repre sen ta tions of the Rural Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Conclusion. Value Versus Values? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Postscript. From a Defunct Factory to a “Crematorium” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
references Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193

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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 208
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 8
- Other: 8
Keywords: Tata Motors

eBook

Published: November 20, 2018
ISBN: 9780823282449