Dispossession Deprivation and Development

This volume is a collection of essays on various aspects of development and underdevelopment of India’s economy and society. The essays seek to unravel exploitative economic and social relations and look for sustainable solutions to contemporary social challenges. The topics covered by them include the agrarian question in contemporary India primitive accumulation displacement and land rights macro-economic policy and employment generation women’s work environmental sustainability left politics and secularism. Each essay engages in its own way with the search for a just society which has been central to the academic work of Utsa Patnaik.