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The Politics of Land Acquisition in Haryana: Managing Dominant Caste Interests in the Name of Development

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The anti-special economic zone (SEZ) mobilisation in Haryana failed to generate a mass movement despite the political strength of farmers and their deep resentment of the government's policy as mentioned in this paper.
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Anti-Special Economic Zone (SEZ) mobilisation in Haryana failed to generate a mass movement. This is despite the political strength of farmers and their deep resentment of the government’s policy t...

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Narratives of the Dispossessed and Casteless: Politics of Land and Caste in Rajarhat, West Bengal

TL;DR: The authors examines the political narratives around a two-decade -old process of land acquisition and development in the "global city" Rajarhat, a former rural settlement in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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The Politics of Caste in India’s New Land Wars

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the special issue through framing the debate on the role of caste in India's current land wars and draw attention to how caste consistently mediates land transfers in p...
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Orchestrating Anti-Dispossession Politics: Caste and Movement Leadership in Rural West Bengal

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the concepts of orchestration and spectacle to analyse the work of leaders of an anti-dispossession movement in rural West Bengal and examined what being a movement leader entails.
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Caste at the City’s Edge: Land Struggles in Peri-urban Bengaluru

TL;DR: This paper foregrounded the significance of caste in rapidly changing peri-urban spaces and showed how the twin scaffoldings of agrarian society (caste and land) are reconfigured as the values of land change in this zone of transition.
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Anticipating Future Capital: Regional Caste Contestations, Speculation and Silent Dispossession in Andhra Pradesh

TL;DR: In 2014, the state of Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated by the Indian government, leaving the truncated state without a capital city as mentioned in this paper, and a period of political uncertainty before and after.
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The land question: special economic zones and the political economy of dispossession in India

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that existing theories of land grabs do not adequately explain why dispossession becomes necessary to accumulation at particular times and places, and seek to reconstruct Harvey's theory of accumulation by dispossession to adequately account for it.
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Growing city, shrinking hinterland: land acquisition, transition and conflict in peri-urban Gurgaon, India:

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the emergence of the peri-urban interface in a village called Basai, which is located in the Gurgaon district of Haryana state in northwestern India.
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Power, policy and protest : the politics of India's special economic zones

TL;DR: In this paper, Rob Jenkins, Loraine Kennedy, and Partha Mukhopadhyay have discussed power, protest, and India's SEZ policy, and the political implications of permanent reform.
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Inter-state Competition, Land Conflicts and Resistance in India

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that there is no simple "race to the bottom" between subnational units and argue that inter-state competition has not produced a simple equation in favour of capital and a side-lining of the concerns of those displaced.
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Dalits and Dispossession: A Comparison

TL;DR: This paper argued that land dispossession for new economy projects may be a form of "land war" in contemporary India and rekindled older debates over the implications of capitalism for caste.
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