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'Illegal land, illegal people' - The Chengara land struggle in Kerala [1]

Landless dalits and adivasis have occupied parts of a corporate rubber plantation at Chengara in Kerala for five years. Despite being pressurised in various ways, they have held out, sticking to their demand of land for them to pursue livelihoods. None of the agreements so far reached with the state government has been satisfactorily implemented. Yet, the issues raised by the Chengara struggle have a social and economic significance that no government can afford to ignore.

Publication Date: 
28/07/2012
M S Sreerekha [2]
Economic and Political Weekly [3]
47
30
21-24
Tags:
Land [4], Conflicts [5], Kerala [6], Scheduled Castes [7], Tribals [8], Land Encroachments [9], Rubber [10], Landless [11], Pathanamthitta (D) [12], Land Tenure [13], Trade Unions [14], Workers [15], Women [16], Governance [17], Political Parties [18], Plantation Crops [19], Poverty [20]

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