Displacement, Impoverishment and Exclusion

Foreword by Muchkund Dubey; Introduction 1. The Development Debate: Listening to People First 2. Development: The Nemesis of the Poor and the Weak 3. Welfare Economy and Land Acquisition: Theoretical Underpinnings 4. Development, Displacement and Impoverishment Centrality of Land Acquisition Law and Policy: The Enterchanged Colonial Legacy 5. Social Impact Assessment (and Social Inclusion): A Critique of National Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy (NRRP) - 2007 6. Uprooting the Earthworms-Resisting the Land-grabs 17. Assessing Institutionalized Capacities for Reducing the Impact of Development-Induced Displacement in India 8. Neo-Liberal Development, Displacement, and Exclusion: Tribal Resistance to Vedanta 9. Dispossession for Development: Some Recent Experiences in Uttar Pradesh 10. Displacement of Tribal People in the Name of Development: A Case Study of Indira Sagar Project in Andhra Pradesh 11. R and R and Environmental Compliance in Sardar Sarovar Project 12. Development at What Cost? A Study of Migration, Loss of Livelihood Security and Development-Induced Displacement in Himachal Pradesh 13. Emergence of Megacity: Impact on Poor - An Analysis Based on the Field Study in the Peri- Urban Areas of Hyderabad