LEADER 04196nam 22006495 450 001 9910480793603321 005 20210713025848.0 010 $a0-8232-8484-0 010 $a0-8232-8244-9 010 $a0-8232-8243-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823282449 035 $a(CKB)4100000007101042 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5568663 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002046508 035 $a(OCoLC)1060198856 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse68823 035 $a(DE-B1597)550739 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823282449 035 $a(OCoLC)1090361468 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007101042 100 $a20200723h20182019 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPeople's Car $eIndustrial India and the Riddles of Populism /$fSarasij Majumder 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$d©2019 215 $a1 online resource (217 pages) 225 1 $aFordham scholarship online 300 $aThis edition previously issued in print: 2018. 311 0 $a0-8232-8242-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAbbreviations --$tA Timeline of the Events in Singur --$tIntroduction. Life Beyond Land: Aspirations, Ambivalence, and the Double Life of Development --$tchapter 1. ?We Are Chasi, Not Chasa?: Emergence of Land-Based Subjectivities --$tchapter 2. Land Is Like Gold: (In)commensurability and the Politics of Land --$tchapter 3. Land Is Like a Mother: The Contradictions of Village- Level Protests --$tchapter 4. ?Peasants? Against Industrialization: Images of the Peasantry and Urban Activists? Representations of the Rural --$tConclusion. Value Versus Values? --$tPostscript. From a Defunct Factory to a ?Crematorium? --$tAcknowledgments --$tGlossary --$treferences --$tIndex 330 $aIndia is witnessing a unique moment in populism, with sentiments divided between economic reforms that promise fast industrialization and protests that thwart such industrialization. This book offers an ethnographic study of divergent local responses to the proposed construction of a Tata Motors factory in eastern India that would have produced the Nano, the so-called people?s car. Initial excitement was followed by long protests among the villagers whose agricultural land was being acquired for the project. After these protests secured the relocation of the factory, further demonstrations followed, sometimes involving the same participants, seeking to bring the factory back. People?s Car explores this ambivalence concerning industrialization, asking why long drawn resistances against corporate industrialization coexist with political rhetoric and slogans promoting fast-paced industrialization. Majumder argues that such contradictory rhetoric and promises target divided sentiments in rural India where land is incommensurable with money and a site specially marked by desire for middle caste small landowners aspiring to futures beyond agriculture. Previous studies of industrialization have generally focused on either demands for development or populist critiques. Moving beyond romantic clichés about urban/rural divisions, People?s Car offers a single analytical and ethnographic framework demonstrating how pro- and anti-industrialization forces feed off each other. 410 0$aFordham scholarship online. 606 $aAutomobile industry and trade$zIndia 606 $aIndustrialization$zIndia$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aIndustrialization$zIndia 606 $aPopulism$zIndia 606 $aTata Motors 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAutomobile industry and trade 615 0$aIndustrialization$xHistory 615 0$aIndustrialization 615 0$aPopulism 615 4$aTata Motors. 676 $a330.954 700 $aMajumder$b Sarasij$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01028344 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480793603321 996 $aPeople's Car$92444305 997 $aUNINA