People's CarPub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780823282449-009
{"title":"Postscript. From a Defunct Factory to a “Crematorium”","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780823282449-009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823282449-009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":400940,"journal":{"name":"People's Car","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122924356","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}
People's CarPub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780823282449-002
{"title":"A Timeline of the Events in Singur","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780823282449-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823282449-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":400940,"journal":{"name":"People's Car","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133745683","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}
People's CarPub Date : 2018-11-20DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823282425.003.0007
Sarasij Majumder
{"title":"From a Defunct Factory to a “Crematorium”","authors":"Sarasij Majumder","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823282425.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823282425.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This section tracks the present situation in the factory site.","PeriodicalId":400940,"journal":{"name":"People's Car","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115755346","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}
People's CarPub Date : 2018-11-20DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823282425.003.0001
Sarasij Majumder
{"title":"Life Beyond Land: Aspirations, Ambivalence, and the Double Life of Development","authors":"Sarasij Majumder","doi":"10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823282425.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823282425.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"The introduction frames the context and events that inform the central theme of the book. It also raises the theoretical questions regarding contradictory trends in populist politics. The declaration of incommensurability between money and land is, the chapter claims, an index of villagers’ desires and aspirations, which remain largely unacknowledged in the dominant political representations of rural Indian villages as purely agricultural and populated by farmers, peasants, cultivators, or laborers. It argues that Landownership is a pause, a distance and a vantage point from which the world and the totalizing narratives of development and modernity make sense enabling them to imagine themselves as subjects of mobility and aspiration.","PeriodicalId":400940,"journal":{"name":"People's Car","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121629659","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}
People's CarPub Date : 2018-11-20DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823282425.003.0002
Sarasij Majumder
{"title":"“We Are Chasi, Not Chasa”: Emergence of Land-Based Subjectivities","authors":"Sarasij Majumder","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823282425.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823282425.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter shows the emergence of land-based identities in West Bengal in the postcolonial period. It demonstrates the social and political divisions and hierarchies that had historically existed in the villages and how in the postcolonial period, certain distinctions gradually softened whereas others based on land hardened. It examines how politicians and policymakers perceived “the villages” and “the rural.” It looks at the political expediencies of elections and democratic politics, which played out in the distribution of land among tenant farmers who constitute the present group of small landholding farmers in Singur. It explores the linguistic distinction between chasa and chasi to trace the changes that occurred in village life and in the subjectivities of small landholding villagers.","PeriodicalId":400940,"journal":{"name":"People's Car","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131275158","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}
People's CarPub Date : 2018-11-20DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823282425.003.0003
Sarasij Majumder
{"title":"Land Is Like Gold: (In)commensurability and the Politics of Land","authors":"Sarasij Majumder","doi":"10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823282425.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823282425.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines how local discourses and narratives about land and development connect property as things and property as relationships. “Land is our mother; it cannot be bought and sold,” “Land is like gold, it is good even if weeds grow on it,” “We are the proprietors,” “Cash vanishes, land remains,” “We (the landed) are more civilized and developed than the landless.” These statements and the local political contexts of their emergence together provide landowning villagers with rhetorical strategies to imagine, talk about, and take positions regarding their relationships with the state, the political regime, and the landless lower caste.","PeriodicalId":400940,"journal":{"name":"People's Car","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130988045","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}
People's CarPub Date : 2018-11-20DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823282425.003.0006
Sarasij Majumder
{"title":"Value Versus Values?","authors":"Sarasij Majumder","doi":"10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823282425.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823282425.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter foregrounds three interrelated issues that run through the book: (1) the incommensurability between land and money, (2) the double life of development, and (3) structural power and value. It emphasizes that the incommensurability between land and money that led to protests over state compensation for land takings are neither a case of pure rejection of industrialization nor of simple irrational thought and institutional failure. To understand the impasse, one has to look at the local iterations of development.","PeriodicalId":400940,"journal":{"name":"People's Car","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129004284","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}
People's CarPub Date : 2018-11-20DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823282425.003.0005
Sarasij Majumder
{"title":"“Peasants” Against Industrialization: Images of the Peasantry and Urban Activists’ Representations of the Rural","authors":"Sarasij Majumder","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823282425.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823282425.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter shows how urban activists seek to construct an authentic peasant voice in order to make connections with a transnational civil society, which has its own agendas, views, and implicit or explicit interests. The construction of an “authentic voice” requires erasing differences within villages in the name of social justice. The strategies employed to do so lead to the silencing and exclusion of many poor and non-poor villagers, and even the protesters themselves, who stand to gain in various ways from the building of the factory.","PeriodicalId":400940,"journal":{"name":"People's Car","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129496797","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}
People's CarPub Date : 2018-11-20DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823282425.003.0004
Sarasij Majumder
{"title":"Land Is Like a Mother: The Contradictions of Village-Level Protests","authors":"Sarasij Majumder","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823282425.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823282425.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers the village protests against land acquisition as performances. It uses the idea of performance, built on concepts of a front stage and a backstage, to contrast the spectacular with the mundane. It highlights the rhetorical strategies that landholding villagers use to represent themselves and rural life to the urban media, urban activists, and the anthropologist using the trope of the peasant living a harmonious rural life. These gendered self-images derive from leftist politics and its extolling of rural life and the peasantry as articulated through such statements as “Land is like mother; it cannot be bought and sold.” This chapter shows how the protest tactics and images challenged the state but also exacerbated conflicts among villagers and prevented them from entering into dialogue with the government regarding compensation and rehabilitation.","PeriodicalId":400940,"journal":{"name":"People's Car","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126521595","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}