The Wild EastPub Date : 2019-09-23DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvfrxr41.16
T. K. Sissener
{"title":"The ‘land and real estate mafia’, West Bengal, East India","authors":"T. K. Sissener","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvfrxr41.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvfrxr41.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":381004,"journal":{"name":"The Wild East","volume":"261 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114091389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Wild EastPub Date : 2019-09-23DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvfrxr41.11
J. Jeyaranjan
{"title":"Sand and the politics of plunder in Tamil Nadu, India","authors":"J. Jeyaranjan","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvfrxr41.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvfrxr41.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":381004,"journal":{"name":"The Wild East","volume":"132 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124260651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Wild EastPub Date : 2019-09-23DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvfrxr41.13
Jai Bhatia
{"title":"Crime in the air:","authors":"Jai Bhatia","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvfrxr41.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvfrxr41.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":381004,"journal":{"name":"The Wild East","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128295364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Wild EastPub Date : 2019-09-23DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvfrxr41.9
N. Singh, B. Harriss‐White
{"title":"The criminal economics and politics of black coal in Jharkhand, 2014","authors":"N. Singh, B. Harriss‐White","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvfrxr41.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvfrxr41.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":381004,"journal":{"name":"The Wild East","volume":"324 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123330215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Wild EastPub Date : 2019-09-23DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvfrxr41.17
N. Martín
{"title":"Politics, capital and land grabs in Punjab, India","authors":"N. Martín","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvfrxr41.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvfrxr41.17","url":null,"abstract":"Engaging critically with the concept of ‘political society’, this chapter exam-ines the issue of land grabbing in Punjab, and focusses in particular upon the systematic small-scale encroachment on village communal land in a rural Punjab district. It shows how politicians often help farmers to continue occupying village common lands illegally, doing so for electoral gains not neces-sarily consistent with the logic of ‘the market’ or of capital. In these cases, politicians seem to be driven by political motives related to electoral calcu-lations rather than solely by financial ones. However, the chapter illustrates how these clientelistic bargains ultimately serve politicians and local elites more than they do those facing the prospect of dispossession.","PeriodicalId":381004,"journal":{"name":"The Wild East","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121997737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Wild EastPub Date : 2019-09-23DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvfrxr41.10
Smita Gupta
{"title":"Jharia’s century-old fire kept ablaze by crime and politics","authors":"Smita Gupta","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvfrxr41.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvfrxr41.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":381004,"journal":{"name":"The Wild East","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122303906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}