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

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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 la...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Majumder, Sarasij (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, [2019]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Populism.
Industrialization.
Automobile industry and trade.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
Automobiles > Industrie et commerce > Inde.
Populisme > Inde.
Industrialisation > Inde > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Industrialisation > Inde.
Automobile industry and trade > India.
Populism > India.
Industrialization > India > History > 21st century.
Industrialization > India.
India.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; PEOPLE'S CAR; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Abbreviations; A Timeline of the Events in Singur; Introduction. Life Beyond Land: Aspirations, Ambivalence, and the Double Life of Development; 1. "We Are Chasis, Not Chasas": Emergence of Land-Based Subjectivities; 2. Land Is Like Gold: (In)commensurability and the Politics of Land; 3. Land Is Like a Mother: The Contradictions of Village-Level Protests; 4. "Peasants" Against Industrialization: Images of the Peasantry and Urban Activists' Representations of the Rural; Conclusion: Value Versus Values?
  • Postscript: From a Defunct Factory to a "Crematorium"Acknowledgments; Glossary; References; Index

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