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Dispossession and Resistance in India

The River and the RageBy Alf Gunvald NilsenSeries:Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies

This book deals with the controversies on developmental aspects of large dams, with a particular focus on the Narmada Valley projects in India. Based on extensive

ethnographic fieldwork and research, the author draws on Marxist theory to craft a detailed analysis of how local demands for resettlement and rehabilitation were

transformed into a radical anti-dam campaign linked to national and transnational movement networks.

The book explains the Narmada conflict and addresses how the building of the anti-dam campaign was animated by processes of collective learning, how activists

extended the spatial scope of their struggle by building networks of solidarity with transnational advocacy groups, and how it is embedded in and shaped by a wider

field of force of capitalist development at national and transnational scales. The analysis emphasizes how the Narmada dam project is related to national and global

processes of capitalist development, and relates the Narmada Valley movement to contemporary popular struggles against dispossession in India and beyond.

Conclusions drawn from the resistance to the Narmada dams can be applied to social movements in other parts of the Global South, where people are strugglingagainst dispossession in a context of neoliberal restructuring. As such, this book will have relevance for people with an interest in South Asian studies, Indian politics

and Development Studies.

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"This book is an exemplary analysis of an important social movement against a major dam project in post-colonial India the book is a theoretically and

empirically rich study of one of the most significant movements against neoliberal globalisation, and will surely inform future studies of movements in the

developing world." - Manali Desai, London School of Economics, UK Capital & Class, 2011

Table of Contents

1. The River and the Rage: Introducing the Narmada Valley Conflict 2. Losing Ground: Accumulation by Dispossession in the Narmada Valley 3. Everyday Tyranny and

Rightful Resistance: The Emergence of the Khedut Mazdoor Chetna Sangath 4. Discovering the Dam: Militant Particularist Struggles for Resettlement and

Rehabilitation 5. Towards Opposition: The Formation of the Anti-Dam Campaign 6. Cycles of Struggle: The Trajectory of the Anti-Dam Campaign 1990-2000 7.

Enablements and Constraints: The Making of the Maheshwar Anti-Dam Campaign 8. Development, Not Destruction: Alternative Development as a Social Movement

Project 9. Whither the Rage? Learning from the Narmada Valley Movement Process

Author Biography

Alf Gunvald Nilsen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Bergen, Norway. His research interests cover social movement theory and

research, critical development research, and Marxist approaches to the political economy of capitalist development all with special reference to India and South

Asia.

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