{"product_id":"peoples-car-9780823282425","title":"Peoples Car","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeople's Car studies divergent populist responses to land acquisition for industries in rural India. It contends that landownership enables small landowners to aspire and look forward to social mobility in the non-farm sector, which are contingent upon industrialization. The protests against land acquisition, thus, have contradictory tendencies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmid a glut of work on the urban global South, it is refreshing to read a book that strives to think the contemporary dynamics of development and agrarian change ethnographically. The book convincingly argues that the romanticized portrayals of either the communitarian peasant (commonplace in activist portrayals) or the irrational peasant (commonplace in policy circles and certain quarters of disciplinary economics) miss the point. Land, Majumder argues, is a vessel of personhood and unrequited desires. Attentive to the conflicted sentiments and desires of its peasant informants, the book refreshingly refuses to toe a clear ideological line. This well-crafted, clearly written book poses important questions of broad relevance to contemporary India and beyond. -- Vinay Gidwani, University of Minnesota\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople’s Car\u003c\/i\u003e offers an extraordinarily valuable take on a major movement against the acquisition of land for development, in the case of a Tata Motors car factory. The factory becomes the alibi for nuanced interrogations, both material and theoretical, of resistance, anthropology, economics, political economies, rural-scapes and the very nature and idea of land. -- Geeta Patel, University of Virginia\u003cbr\u003eSarasij Majumder’s new ethnography, \u003ci\u003ePeople’s Car\u003c\/i\u003e, does what anthropology does best: he \u003ci\u003eshows\u003c\/i\u003e (not tells) how populism \u003ci\u003eworks... \u003c\/i\u003eAnthropologists, South Asia scholars, and readers interested in class, labor, gender and village life will greatly benefit from Majumder’s attention to the rural not as object, but as process. * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *\u003cbr\u003eMajumder’s book deserves to be read by everybody interested in the present of West Bengal as history; so that, above all, one may not mistake snake oils of the past for elixirs of the future.\u003cb\u003e---Indraneel Dasgupta, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, \u003ci\u003eEconomic and Political Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e ix\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Timeline of the Events in Singur\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Life Beyond Land: Aspirations, Ambivalence, and the Double Life of Development 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1.\u003c\/b\u003e “We Are \u003ci\u003eChasis\u003c\/i\u003e, Not \u003ci\u003eChasas\u003c\/i\u003e”: Emergence of Land-Based Subjectivities 33\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e Land Is Like Gold: (In)commensurability and the Politics of Land 62\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3.\u003c\/b\u003e Land Is Like a Mother: The Contradictions of Village-Level Protests 100\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. \u003c\/b\u003e“Peasants” Against Industrialization: Images of the Peasantry and Urban Activists’ Representations of the Rural 131\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e: Value Versus Values? 153\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePostscript\u003c\/b\u003e: From a Defunct Factory to a “Crematorium” 167\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 171\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlossary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 175\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReferences\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 177\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e193\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhotographs follow page 14\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083686945111,"sku":"9780823282425","price":68.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823282425.jpg?v=1725549719","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/peoples-car-9780823282425","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}