Interrogating development : state, displacement and popular resistance in North East India / Monirul Hussain.

By:

Hussain, Monirul, 1952-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Sage studies on India's north eastPublication details: Los Angeles : Sage, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (174 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

8178299690
9788178299693

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Interrogating development.DDC classification:

362.87 22 22

LOC classification:

HV640.4.I4 H86 2008eb

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Contents:

Introduction -- Imposing development : introducing the incomplete dossier of displacement -- Hard-hitting reality : development-induced displacement of population in post-colonial Assam -- Development, dam and displacement : resistance from the threatened -- Conclusion : new politics of development : interface between the state and the people.

Summary: This book, the first in a series on the North East, focuses on development-induced. displacement of population in the region during the post-colonial period. Despite. state-sponsored development initiatives, the North East still remains highly underdeveloped. and politically disturbed. Various development projects initiated by the state. led to massive displacement of population within the region, which has virtually. gone unnoticed. The author has made use of extensive empirical data to document. this massive displacement. The Government of India had recently decided to construct 145 mega dam.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This book, the first in a series on the North East, focuses on development-induced. displacement of population in the region during the post-colonial period. Despite. state-sponsored development initiatives, the North East still remains highly underdeveloped. and politically disturbed. Various development projects initiated by the state. led to massive displacement of population within the region, which has virtually. gone unnoticed. The author has made use of extensive empirical data to document. this massive displacement. The Government of India had recently decided to construct 145 mega dam.

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