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The Coal Nation

Histories, Ecologies and Politics of Coal in India

By: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt

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The Coal Nation

Histories, Ecologies and Politics of Coal in India

By: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt

Social science research is emerging on a range of issues around large and small-scale mining, connecting them to broader social, cultural, political, historical and economic factors rather than purely measuring the environmental impacts of mining. Within this broader context of global scholarly attention on extractive industries, this book explores two specific contexts: the cultural politics of coal and coal mining, within the context of one particular country, India, which is the third largest coal producer in the world. Both contexts are special; with its separate Ministry, coal occupies pride of place in contemporary India, shaping the energy future and influencing the economic and political milieu of the country. The supremacy attributed to coal mining in contemporary India represents how ’coal nationalism’ has replaced ’coal colonialism’ in the country, turning this commodity into an icon, a national symbol. In recent years the extraction of coal in forest-covered resource peripheries has dispossessed and pauperised many tribal and rural communities who have used these resource-rich lands for their livelihoods for generations. The combustion of coal to produce electricity constitutes the compelling need, and the factor that prevents the Indian state from fully engaging with the impending realities of a climate-changed future. All these reasons make the timing of this book of crucial importance. In particular, The Coal Nation explores the complex history of coal in India; from its colonial legacies to contemporary cultural and social impacts of mining; land ownership and moral resource rights; protective legislation for coal as well as for the indigenous and local communities; the question of legality, illegitimacy and illicit mining and of social justice. Presenting cutting-edge multidisciplinary social science research on coal and mining in India, The Coal Nation initiates a productive dialogue amongst academics and between them and activists.

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Routledge

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1317037960

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9781317037965

Dancing with the River

People and Life on the Chars of South Asia

By: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt,Gopa Samanta

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Dancing with the River

People and Life on the Chars of South Asia

By: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt,Gopa Samanta

With this book Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of “hybrid landscapes.” Focusing on chars—the part-land, part-water, low-lying sandy masses that exist within the riverbeds in the floodplains of lower Bengal—the authors show how, both as real-life examples and as metaphors, chars straddle the conventional categories of land and water, and how people who live on them fluctuate between legitimacy and illegitimacy. The result, a study of human habitation in the nebulous space between land and water, charts a new way of thinking about land, people, and people's ways of life.

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217

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Yale University Press

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0300189575

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9780300189575

Rethinking Displacement: Asia Pacific Perspectives

By: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt

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Rethinking Displacement: Asia Pacific Perspectives

By: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt

This book responds to the need to explore the multitude of interconnected factors causing displacements that compel people to move within their homelands or traverse various borders in the contemporary world that is characterised by extensive and rapid movements of people. It addresses this need by bringing together historical and contemporary accounts and critical examinations of the displaced, by articulating the commonalities in their lived experiences. It accomplishes the task of charting a new path in displacement studies by offering a number of studies from interdisciplinary and diverse methodological approaches comprising ethnographic and qualitative research and literary interpretations to emphasise that although the forms and conditions of mobility are highly divergent, individual experiences of displacement and placelessness offer a critical challenge to the artificial categorisations of people's movements. Each chapter adds insights into the different configurations of displacement and placement, and offers fresh interpretations of migration and dislocation in today's rapidly changing world. The contributors critically examine a variety of displacement processes and experiences in the context of war, tourism, neoliberal policies of development, and the impact of various agro-forestry policies. They focus on a range of countries, enabling a thorough comparative analysis in terms of scope and range of examples and methods of analysis. This book makes an original contribution to the growing body of literature on displacement, and will appeal to a wide readership including advanced undergraduates, and graduate students and professors in disciplines such as human geography, development studies, sociology and anthropology, regional studies and comparative impact assessment.

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Routledge

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1317064305

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The Coal Nation

Histories, Ecologies and Politics of Coal in India

By: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt

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Histories, Ecologies and Politics of Coal in India

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Moving Pictures

Rickshaw Art of Bangladesh

By: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt,David J. Williams

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Moving Pictures

Rickshaw Art of Bangladesh

By: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt,David J. Williams

The book presents an account as well as an informed interpretation of the paintings done by local artists on cycle- and auto-rickshaws of urban Bangladesh, with a socio-cultural background of its artistic traditions. It is a visual feast, containing a selection of colour photographic images of heavily painted rickshaws, artists and the art panels.

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The Coal Nation

The Coal Nation

Dancing with the River

Dancing with the River

Rethinking Displacement: Asia Pacific Perspectives

Rethinking Displacement: Asia Pacific Perspectives

The Coal Nation

The Coal Nation

Moving Pictures

Moving Pictures

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