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Forced Displacement Studies in India: An Overview

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The twentieth century has witnessed bewildering technological progress and expansion of scientific knowledge. This modernity has not only seen the rise and fall of great power but also helped people escape barbarism. This became possible because ideas have become powerful weapons for which ‘people were ready to live and die for’ (The Economist, 2004, P 80 cited in Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly and Thomas G Weiss, 2005, P21). This chapter is on the history of growth of displacement studies in India which has been woven around the evolution of the idea of displacement: a process that began in the colonial period but grew after independence when the welfare state started constructing large dams and other developmental projects and subsequently the neo-liberal state started Special Economic Zones expeditiously.

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Mohanty, B. (2022). Forced Displacement Studies in India: An Overview. In: Chowdhory, N., Banerjee, P. (eds) Gender, Identity and Migration in India. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5598-2_8

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