Compulsory land acquisition and involuntary displacement of communities for a larger public purpose captures the tension of development in the modern state, wit

Every year millions of people are displaced from their homes, livelihoods and communities due to land-based development projects. There is no limit to what can

Legal and institutional concerns, with reference to India.

In the past ten years or so, displacement by development projects has gone on almost untamed under the globalization pressures to meet the demand for land from

This book, the first in a series on the North East, focuses on development-induced displacement of population in the region in the post-colonial period. Despite