People's car : industrial India and the riddles of populism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Majumder, Sarasij (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Fordham University Press, [2019]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Industrialization > India. Industrialization > India > History > 21st century. Populism > India. Automobile industry and trade > India. 2000-2099 Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover; PEOPLE'S CAR; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Abbreviations; A Timeline of the Events in Singur; Introduction. Life Beyond Land: Aspirations, Ambivalence, and the Double Life of Development; 1. "We Are Chasis, Not Chasas": Emergence of Land-Based Subjectivities; 2. Land Is Like Gold: (In)commensurability and the Politics of Land; 3. Land Is Like a Mother: The Contradictions of Village-Level Protests; 4. "Peasants" Against Industrialization: Images of the Peasantry and Urban Activists' Representations of the Rural; Conclusion: Value Versus Values?
Postscript: From a Defunct Factory to a "Crematorium"Acknowledgments; Glossary; References; Index