The Political Economy of Land Acquisition in India

How a Village Stops Being One

Dhanmanjiri Sathe

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9789811053269
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Agribusiness
• Index: Business

This book examines key issues concerning land acquisition, and puts forward policy suggestions. Land acquisition is one of the most important issues besetting India's political economy today. There have been many conflicts surrounding acquisitions; but there have been ample peaceful acquisitions, too. Growth in any economy requires more land. Hence in India too, in the future more and more land will be required for the purposes of infrastructure expansion, industrialization, urbanization etc.

The book also examines a number of broader policy issues in the context of land reforms and shows how a successful resolution of the land acquisition matter is vital to attaining a high rate of growth. Using a case study method, the book examines the process of land acquisition in detail and its implications for farmers. It finds that the development of acquired land leads to higher growth and higher employment; and it also leads to improvements for the dalits (the backward class p

eople). Benefits in terms of higher revenues for the government are also observed. It argues that, if the acquisition process is properly executed, those farmers who lose land will not oppose acquisition but will instead become partners in the process of growth.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Graphs
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Eminent Domain, Right to Property and the LARR 2013
• Chapter 3 A Historical Detour and Background to Maan
• Chapter 4 The Loss of Land and Compensation Issues
• Chapter 5 Growth in Maan
• Chapter 6 The Development in Maan
• Chapter 7 Land Acquisition and the Dalits
• Chapter 8 Other Significant Changes in Maan
• Chapter 9 A Review of Some Other Acquisitions In India and Policy Implications
• Chapter 10 Need for a Shift in Discourse