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Development, displacement and resistance: The law and the policy on land acquisition [1]

Peasants across India are opposing development projects which displaced them from their land, habitat, livelihood and environment. They are questioning the paradign of development itself which is so heavily loaded against them. The law on land acquisition is central to the understanding of this hostility to development.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2008
K. B. Saxena [2]
Social Change [3]
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Tags:
Land [4], Land Acquisition [5], Land Act 1894 [6], Development [7], Displacement [8], Farmers [9], Conflicts [10], Rehabilitation [11], Compensation [12], India [13]
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[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/farmers
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/conflicts
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rehabilitation
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