Resettling Displaced People

Developmental projects have long been displacing people in large numbers every year, but it is only in recent years that the fate of those adversely affected has become an issue of widespread concern requiring urgent action. This volume is the scholarly exploration of these critical issues in a wider perspective, examining resettlement policies as well as resettlement strategies, their strengths, their weaknesses, the persisting gap between policy and its actual practice and the means to improve resettlement outcomes. This volume is well-structured into four parts: (a) Displacement and Resettlement in Developmental Projects (b) Re-examining Resettlement Policies (c) Addressing Resettlement Concerns and (d) Resettlement in a Globalizing World. It goes beyond the common description of resettlement problems and attempts at gaining a deeper understanding of resettlement realities. In a separate section, the book discusses the hotly debated current issues of resettlement policy and practice in the context of globalization. The volume contains original case studies which will bring to academic and policy tables a body of important new ideas that will stimulate debates and also hopefully change and improve current practices. The contributors to this volume are eminent scholars, including some who have played a vital role in shaping resettlement policies as well as in implementing projects at the grassroots level.

Hari Mohan Mathur is Visiting Professor, Council for Social Development, New Delhi.

Acknowledgements. Foreword by Muchkund Dubey. Introduction and Overview Hari Mohan Mathur. Part I. The Governance Challenge in Resettlement 1. Doing Resettlement: Policy, Planning and Management Hari Mohan Mathur Part II. Emerging Issues in Resettlement Policy 2. Converting India?EUR?s Resettlement Policy into Resettlement Law: A Welcome Initiative but a Disappointing Outcome Ramaswamy R Iyer 3. Re-examining ?EUR?Displacement?EUR?: A Redefinition of Concept in Development and Conservation Policies Michael M Cernea 4. Involuntary Resettlement Policy and Transport Projects Gordon Appleby 5. Resettlement Realities: The Gulf between Policy and Practice Felix Padel and Samarendra Das Part III. Compensation and the Resettlement Process 6. Resettlers?EUR? Preferences and the Compensation Criterion: A Second Look Supriya Garikipati 7. From Narmada to Nandigram: The Never Ending Clamour for Land as the only Route to Resettlement Vasudha Dhagamwar 8. Reconstructing Livelihoods: The CIL Experience with Self-Employment Schemes M P Roy 9. Resettlement in the Tehri Dam Project: An Ethnographic Profile Tulsie Charan Bisht 10. The Micro-Politics of Urban Evictions and Rehabilitation: Cases from Kolkata, India Medha Chandra Part IV. Privatizing Development 11. Development-Induced Displacement in the Era of Privatization Walter Fernandes 12. Special Economic Zones: The New ?EUR?Land?EUR? Mines Manshi Asher and Yamini Atmavilas 13. Special Economic Zones, Land Acquisition, and Civil Society in West Bengal Abhijit Guha 14. A Blow to Tribal Life: The Effects of Privatization in Orissa Hari Mohan Mathur Part V. An Alternative View 15. The Limitations of Current Approaches to Resettlement Jayantha Perera. About the Editor and Contributors. Index