About the Book
The present volume, an assortment of papers written by eminent activists, administrators and scholars on development-induced displacement of indigenous people from their lands and livelihoods, purports to draw out a schema towards the study of displacement as a sociological phenomenon.
Using a Bordieuxian framework to understand the economics of development from a sociological perspective, the book explores the kind of society we are pursuing, and also the types of engagements we wish to enter into with our history where sections of our population need to be cast aside to make way for the rest of us. The conclusion that the present volume draws upon is not how the various social groups respond to displacement but how the Indian society as a whole seems eager to use a developmentalist paradigm despite being fully aware of the inequalities and marginalization that such paradigms create.
The book will serve as a ready guide for activists, scholars, lawyers, corporate houses, development consultants and policy makers.
Contents
1. People’s Concerns in Land Acquisition and Resettlement / K.B. Saxena
2. State-led Development-Induced Dispossession and Displacement / Bhaskar Majumder
3. Impact of Displacement on the Tribes / Walter Fernandes
4. Development-Induced Displacement / Ramesh S. Mangalekar
5. Development through Displacement and Marginalization of Tribal Community / Narendra K. Behera
6. Water for Power: Debating New Trends of Water Development in the Sikkim Himalayas / Vimal Khawas and Deepa Joshi
7. Giving with One Hand, Taking Away with the Other / Patrik Oskarsson
8. Mining and Displacement in South Odisha / M. Gopinath Reddy, Prajna Paramita Mishra and Nagaraju Chikkala
9. Swelling Displacement and Elusive Rehabilitation / K.B. Saxena
10. Whither National Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy for the Displaced? / Ganesha Somayaji and Joanna P. Coelho
11. Displacement and Resettlement in China / Satya Prakash Dash
About the Author / Editor
Sakarama Somayaji, a trained development sociologist from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, is currently working as a Social Development Advisor for the Sirsa Lok Sabha constituency of Haryana. Earlier he worked as Senior Fellow with the Council for Social Development (CSD), New Delhi; and as Fellow and Area Convenor, Social Transformation Division in the Relocation and Rehabilitation Group at the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi. He has worked extensively on issues pertaining to the rehabilitation of project-displaced people in the states of Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand. He also designed and conducted training workshops on rehabilitation planning for development practitioners, senior bureaucrats, representatives of NGOs and corporate audiences. Some of his co-edited books include Development-induced Displacement, Rehabilitation and Resettlement in India (2011, Routledge), Environmental Concerns and Sustainable Development (2009, TERI Press), and Sociology of Globalisation (2006, Rawat).
Susmita Dasgupta is a PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has been associated for the past 25 years as a policy economist with the Joint Plant Committee, Ministry of Steel, Government of India. She has also published papers in volumes edited by eminent scholars. Her doctoral thesis on Amitabh Bachchan was published in 2006 under the title Amitabh: The Making of a Superstar (Penguin).
