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Land Acquisition & Land Alienation in India
Select Case Studies
Now available at discounted price.
MRP INR 550.00 + shipping
Avail 40% discount
Discounted Price INR 330.00 + shipping
For more details write to connect@peoplespublication.com
ISBN: 9788193252505
Publisher: Peoples Literature Publication
Number of Pages: 131
Dimensions: 6 inch x 9 inch
Interior Pages: Black & White
Binding: Paperback (Perfect Binding)
Description of "Land Acquisition & Land Alienation in India"
Land has been an important part of human life. Land Reforms remain
quintessential for social and gender justice. Land consolidation
actually resulted in a highly inequitable society. India was among
those very few nations that decided to abolish Zamindari and provide
land rights to rural poor immediately after it became a republic in
1950. The government further went forward with its socialist agenda
and brought in Land Ceiling Act to provide land to the last person of
our society.
Even when officials were not honest in absolute terms to respect the
‘Directive Principles’ in the form of guidelines to Indian State, in
terms of dutifully implementing it, the real changes appeared among
Indian intellectuals in the aftermath of 1991 when Indian economy was
‘liberalised’ and government took extra steps to promote private
capital and business investment in the country
After 2000, the governments in India unleashed a wave of ‘glasnost’ in
the economic sphere; therefore, they provided huge subsidies to big
corporations and single window solutions for their problems. Suddenly,
the greener regions of India, its vast and lush green forest zones
became the target of big international and national corporations. The
land was easily being occupied by the state in the name of ‘national
interest’ under the colonial law of 1894 land acquisition act.
Millions of acres of land were made easily available to greedy
corporate houses, both national and international, without seeking any
mandate from the people whether they want the project or not. Not only
this, the irony was that there was no need for them to even think of
any decent rehabilitation plan of those who lost their land and
livelihood.
Here, we showcase some studies on cases where people mobilized their
efforts against acquisition of land. Some have turned out to be
complete or partial success. All the cases, with two exceptions, start
with the background or what happened really in the case or project,
then go on to describe the people affected and/or legislations
involved, the story of struggle or litigation,
ecological-environmental issues, free prior informed consent (FPIC)
and national and international laws being violated, people’s movement
and mobilization, and finally state the current status of the
issue/project
About the author(s)
Vidya Bhushan Rawat is a political commentator, freethinker, radical
humanist, Human rights activists with over 20 years of work with
various social movements and communities all over the country, on
issues of hunger and starvation, land rights of tribals and Dalits.
Women's issues.
A student of English Literature became a close associate of eminent
Novelist Dr. Mulk Raj Anand in the early 90s during his student days,
Rawat’s ideological shape was constructed under prominent Ambedkarite
Shri Bhagwan Das and later renowned humanist Justice V.M. Tarkunde.
He was one of the members of solidarity committee on right to food in
India which is spearheading the campaign for Food Security Bill in
India and other entitlements. In fact, it is the campaign due to which
the government brought National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
He was founding member of Campaign for Electoral Reforms in India.
He worked with Foodfirst Information and Action Network (FIAN
International) and was instrumental in formation of FIAN in UP and
Delhi in 1995 and raised the issue of hunger and malnutrition in
India. In fact those were the years when the national human rights
organizations in India were not interested in raising these issues.
Land Acquisition & Land Alienation in India
Select Case Studies
Now available at discounted price.
MRP INR 550.00 + shipping
Avail 40% discount
Discounted Price INR 330.00 + shipping
For more details write to connect@peoplespublication.com
ISBN: 9788193252505
Publisher: Peoples Literature Publication
Number of Pages: 131
Dimensions: 6 inch x 9 inch
Interior Pages: Black & White
Binding: Paperback (Perfect Binding)
Description of "Land Acquisition & Land Alienation in India"
Land has been an important part of human life. Land Reforms remain
quintessential for social and gender justice. Land consolidation
actually resulted in a highly inequitable society. India was among
those very few nations that decided to abolish Zamindari and provide
land rights to rural poor immediately after it became a republic in
1950. The government further went forward with its socialist agenda
and brought in Land Ceiling Act to provide land to the last person of
our society.
Even when officials were not honest in absolute terms to respect the
‘Directive Principles’ in the form of guidelines to Indian State, in
terms of dutifully implementing it, the real changes appeared among
Indian intellectuals in the aftermath of 1991 when Indian economy was
‘liberalised’ and government took extra steps to promote private
capital and business investment in the country
After 2000, the governments in India unleashed a wave of ‘glasnost’ in
the economic sphere; therefore, they provided huge subsidies to big
corporations and single window solutions for their problems. Suddenly,
the greener regions of India, its vast and lush green forest zones
became the target of big international and national corporations. The
land was easily being occupied by the state in the name of ‘national
interest’ under the colonial law of 1894 land acquisition act.
Millions of acres of land were made easily available to greedy
corporate houses, both national and international, without seeking any
mandate from the people whether they want the project or not. Not only
this, the irony was that there was no need for them to even think of
any decent rehabilitation plan of those who lost their land and
livelihood.
Here, we showcase some studies on cases where people mobilized their
efforts against acquisition of land. Some have turned out to be
complete or partial success. All the cases, with two exceptions, start
with the background or what happened really in the case or project,
then go on to describe the people affected and/or legislations
involved, the story of struggle or litigation,
ecological-environmental issues, free prior informed consent (FPIC)
and national and international laws being violated, people’s movement
and mobilization, and finally state the current status of the
issue/project
About the author(s)
Vidya Bhushan Rawat is a political commentator, freethinker, radical
humanist, Human rights activists with over 20 years of work with
various social movements and communities all over the country, on
issues of hunger and starvation, land rights of tribals and Dalits.
Women's issues.
A student of English Literature became a close associate of eminent
Novelist Dr. Mulk Raj Anand in the early 90s during his student days,
Rawat’s ideological shape was constructed under prominent Ambedkarite
Shri Bhagwan Das and later renowned humanist Justice V.M. Tarkunde.
He was one of the members of solidarity committee on right to food in
India which is spearheading the campaign for Food Security Bill in
India and other entitlements. In fact, it is the campaign due to which
the government brought National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
He was founding member of Campaign for Electoral Reforms in India.
He worked with Foodfirst Information and Action Network (FIAN
International) and was instrumental in formation of FIAN in UP and
Delhi in 1995 and raised the issue of hunger and malnutrition in
India. In fact those were the years when the national human rights
organizations in India were not interested in raising these issues.
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