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People''s Car: Industrial India and the Riddles of Populism
ISBN: 9780823282449
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Anthropology ; History ; Political Science;

People's Car studies divergent populist responses to land acquisition for industries in rural India. It contends that landownership enables small landowners to aspire and look forward to social mobility in the non-farm sector, which are contingent upon industrialization. The protests against land acquisition, thus, have contradictory tendencies.

Sarasij Majumder is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies at Kennesaw State University.Sarasij Majumder is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies at Kennesaw State University.