DEVELOPMENT INDUCED DISPLACEMENT
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Author(s)ABHIJIT GUHA
PublisherIDEAINDIA.COM
ISBN / ASINB005L9UZE6
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DEVELOPMENT INDUCED DISPLACEMENT
Abhijit Guha
eBook published by IDEAINDIA.COM
© Abhijit Guha 2009
This eBook looks at displacement of people in India during land acquisitions for industrialisation with particular emphasis on West Bengal.
The first striking thing one observes in this field is the virtual absence of any empirical and theoretical work on development induced displacement in West Bengal. This of course does not mean that displacement and rehabilitation are non-existent in West Bengal, which in the pre-Independence period, was the leading state in terms of industrialisation, and where, after Independence, large industries and thermal power plants have been built up displacing many families (including tribals) from their agricultural land and homes. West Bengal has also experienced large-scale mining on the western part of the state bordering Jharkhand. In an article published in 1989, Walter Fernandes and his co-workers, quoting from Government sources, have shown that for the Durgapur Steel Plant in Bardhaman district of West Bengal 6,633.44 hectares of land was acquired, which displaced 11,300 persons, 3.39 percent of whom were tribals (Fernandes et al. 1989). In the same article, Fernandes quoted another Government source which showed that up to 1983 there were 114 mines (all are coal mines) in West Bengal although he did not give any concrete figure about the total number of displaced persons owing to the acquisition of land for the establishment of mines. Displacement and rehabilitation have not yet entered into the official agenda of the Government of West Bengal like the routinised recording of bargadars (sharecroppers) and the number of landless labourers who have been given land by the Government.
ABHIJIT GUHA. Reader, in Anthropology,Vidyasagar University. Took his Masters’ in Anthropology from Calcutta University in 1983 and M.Phil. in Environmental Science from CU in 1984. He was ICSSR Doctoral Fellow during 1984-85 at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Teaching at Vidyasagar University for the last 22 years and took his Ph.D in Anthropology.Dr.Guha did his Ph.D on Land Acquisition and Displacement of Peasants in West Bengal under the Left Front Government which is the first of its kind in this field. He has published about 80 articles, comments and book reviews in various International and National level peer-reviewed journals, newspapers and edited volumes which include Current Anthropology, Population and Development Review, Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society, Economic and Political Weekly, frontier and Journal of Human Ecology, and The Statesman since 1985 and presented papers in many Seminars and Conferences in India and abroad. He has also published a book Land, Law and the Left: The Saga of Disempowerment of the Peasantry in the Era of Globalisation in 2007. Dr. Guha taught at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences and was a visiting fellow at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics. Recently, he acted as an expert on the amendment of Land Acquisition and Resettlement and Rehabilitation bills before the Standing Committee on Rural Development, Lok Sabha.
Abhijit Guha
eBook published by IDEAINDIA.COM
© Abhijit Guha 2009
This eBook looks at displacement of people in India during land acquisitions for industrialisation with particular emphasis on West Bengal.
The first striking thing one observes in this field is the virtual absence of any empirical and theoretical work on development induced displacement in West Bengal. This of course does not mean that displacement and rehabilitation are non-existent in West Bengal, which in the pre-Independence period, was the leading state in terms of industrialisation, and where, after Independence, large industries and thermal power plants have been built up displacing many families (including tribals) from their agricultural land and homes. West Bengal has also experienced large-scale mining on the western part of the state bordering Jharkhand. In an article published in 1989, Walter Fernandes and his co-workers, quoting from Government sources, have shown that for the Durgapur Steel Plant in Bardhaman district of West Bengal 6,633.44 hectares of land was acquired, which displaced 11,300 persons, 3.39 percent of whom were tribals (Fernandes et al. 1989). In the same article, Fernandes quoted another Government source which showed that up to 1983 there were 114 mines (all are coal mines) in West Bengal although he did not give any concrete figure about the total number of displaced persons owing to the acquisition of land for the establishment of mines. Displacement and rehabilitation have not yet entered into the official agenda of the Government of West Bengal like the routinised recording of bargadars (sharecroppers) and the number of landless labourers who have been given land by the Government.
ABHIJIT GUHA. Reader, in Anthropology,Vidyasagar University. Took his Masters’ in Anthropology from Calcutta University in 1983 and M.Phil. in Environmental Science from CU in 1984. He was ICSSR Doctoral Fellow during 1984-85 at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Teaching at Vidyasagar University for the last 22 years and took his Ph.D in Anthropology.Dr.Guha did his Ph.D on Land Acquisition and Displacement of Peasants in West Bengal under the Left Front Government which is the first of its kind in this field. He has published about 80 articles, comments and book reviews in various International and National level peer-reviewed journals, newspapers and edited volumes which include Current Anthropology, Population and Development Review, Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society, Economic and Political Weekly, frontier and Journal of Human Ecology, and The Statesman since 1985 and presented papers in many Seminars and Conferences in India and abroad. He has also published a book Land, Law and the Left: The Saga of Disempowerment of the Peasantry in the Era of Globalisation in 2007. Dr. Guha taught at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences and was a visiting fellow at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics. Recently, he acted as an expert on the amendment of Land Acquisition and Resettlement and Rehabilitation bills before the Standing Committee on Rural Development, Lok Sabha.
