The land question: Special economic zones and the political economy of dispossession in India

Journal of Peasant Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 933-969

  Levien, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

accumulation by dispossession; agrarian change; India; land grabs; Rajasthan; Special Economic Zones

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN CHANGE; CAPITALISM; LAND REFORM; POLITICAL ECONOMY; RURAL ECONOMY;

INDIA; RAJASTHAN;

EID: 84861876161     PISSN: 03066150     EISSN: 17439361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2012.656268     Document Type: Article

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