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The social, economic and political contexts in which development projects in India are implemented, and consequences to people displaced by such projects, are analyzed in this book. Development, displacement, resettlement and rehabilitation processes related to three major reservoir bases' irrigation and power projects, and three major industrial projects are studied. The role of the State, international agencies and the private industrial sector in promoting development and managing rehabilitation of the displaced people is assessed, and the author proposes a framework for a comprehensive policy on development, displacement and rehabilitation

The Central and State Governments in India have actively
intervened in redefining land use pattern, often to the detriment of the
peasant cultivators. In most situations, the real beneficiaries were the
speculators, developers, builders, bureaucrats, and the planning and
executing body. The case of New Bombay is a classic example of state
intervention that completely redefined the relationship between land and
peasant-cultivators. The New Bombay project acquired large amounts of
agricultural and saltpan land from peasants in 95 villages for meagre
cash compensation. The objective of the paper is to trace the origin of
the idea-for the creation of New Bombay and a port to attract people and
industry so as to decongest Bombay-and assess the condition of peasants
who had lost land to the project. The study shows that the port, like
most other modem industrial projects, seriously undermined the economic
position of a large number of households. The small and marginal farmers
and the fishermen were seriously affected due to others' land
acquisition and their own loss of access to the sea, as well as denial
of employment in the project. The project also failed to assess the
skills and capacities of the affected people and facilitate them to
engage in alternative productive activities. Women were productively
engaged in agriculture, saltpan- and fishing-related activities in the
affected villages. The loss of land and access to the sea have led to a
greater degree of pauperisation of women, and increasingly confined them
to the margins of the labour market.

Building, largely, on insights from India, and case studies in Brazil, China, and South Africa, this book provides insights into the contested topic of `governance and governed' from a state-society inter-relationship perspective. It argues that the centrality of an understanding of state-governance today is rooted in concerns regarding diversities and contingencies of concrete political reality to address inequalities, exclusion and vulnerabilities. These countries are part of the BRICSs consortium, and have been recognised for their growth potential in the world economy. But their economic progress alone may not necessarily translate into a better quality of life. The approach here is not to focus on a particular understanding of governance, but to utilise a wider lens to understand the nature and extent of incremental processes in the different case-study contexts in order to offer a broader framework for procedural and substantive understanding of governance, rather than a prescription of a government and its activity of governing. The focus is on deriving practical lessons about governance process that are of interest to the wider development community.

Food security is one of the twenty-first century's key global challenges, and lessons learned from India have particular significance worldwide. Not only does India account for approximately one quarter of the world's under-nourished persons, it also provides a worrying case of how rapid economic growth may not provide an assumed panacea to food security. This book takes on this challenge. It explains how India's chronic food security problem is a function of a distinctive interaction of economic, political and environmental processes. It contends that under-nutrition and hunger are