Development-induced displacement, rehabilitation and resettlement in India: current issues and challenges

In: Routledge contemporary South Asia series, 42

Abstract

Compulsory land acquisition and involuntary displacement of communities for a larger public purpose captures the tension of development in the modern state, with the need to balance the interests of the majority while protecting the rights of the minority. This book examines a number of new policy formulations put in place at both the central and state levels looking at land acquisition procedures and norms for rehabilitation and resettlement of communities.