Displacement, Impoverishment and Exclusion

Sujit Kumar Mishra is an economist who has specialsit in Development Economics for his doctoral theses and in Environmental and Natural Reseouce Economics in his post doctoral research. Prior to joining the Council for Social Development team in 2006, he worked with The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi as Associate Fellow. R Siva Prasad is currently Professor of Anthropology and Head (I/c), Department of Education and Education Technology, School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. He was formerly Head, Department of Anthropology.

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