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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hussain, Monirul, 1952-

Series:

Sage studies on India's north east.

Sage studies on India's north east

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internally displaced persons--India--Assam--Social conditions.

Internally displaced persons.

Ethnic conflict--India--Assam.

Ethnic conflict.

Assam (India)--Social conditions.

Assam (India).

India, Northeastern--Ethnic relations.

India, Northeastern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2008.

Language Note:

English

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [156]-169) and index.

ISBN:

93-5280-320-5

1-281-96536-7

9786611965365

81-7829-969-0

OCLC:

467180442