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The subnational politics of dispossession : How nepotism stymied development and sparked resistance in Polepally, Andhra Pradesh

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posted on 2021-01-01, 00:00 authored by Raman Apsingikar, David HundtDavid Hundt
Economic dispossession is usually assumed to be a process that originates from global capital and flows down to the national level, but little is known about how subnational actors facilitate and benefit from this process. By developing a bottom-up perspective on dispossession, this article argues that the synergy between subnational political and economic elites resulted in the dispossession of farmers in the south Indian state of Andra Pradesh. It illustrates that subnational elites had their own motives to establish a Special Economic Zone in Polepally, and that this episode of dispossession sparked a high degree of resistance.

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Journal

Indian Studies Review

Volume

2

Issue

2

Pagination

10 - 34

Publisher

Centre for Study of Politics and Governance, University of Delhi

Location

Delhi, India

ISSN

2583-004X

eISSN

2582-7154

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

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