People's Car: Industrial India and the Riddles of Populism

Author/Contributor(s):	Majumder, Sarasij
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Date:	11/20/2018
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.