Development-Induced Displacement of People in Post-Independence India: Some Facts

By : Bhaskar Majumder

Page No: 77-85

Abstract
While land acquisition in the early stages of development in post-independence India did not face public resistance, the same action in the recent past raised questions on the nature of development, for, it started being realized that the development was also displacing people dependent on land for livelihood. Based on five selected recent examples in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh in India, we explored how far it was development-oriented and to what extent it had adverse impact on the land-dependent marginalized sections in India’s rural economy. What we observed was that not only the owners of cultivable land were dispossessed of land but also the wage-workers on land lost the opportunity to remain engaged on land. The paper concludes with some recommendations.

Author :
Bhaskar Majumder
G. B. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/PROD.2021.62.01.8