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1. The 'Anti-politics machine' in India: Depoliticisation through local institution building for participatory watershed development.

Author

Chhotray, Vasudha

Subjects
*LOCAL government, *ADMINISTRATIVE & political divisions, *POLITICAL science, *CONFERENCES & conventions, *VILLAGES
Abstract

This article investigates the rationale and implications of creating non-elected community-based bodies for India's national watershed development programme in 1994. A discourse of depoliticisation is in use to justify the creation of 'apolitical' watershed committees in contrast to 'political' panchayats, ostensibly unsuitable for participatory development for their embodiment of political contestation and vested interests. The discourse masks conflicts between key actors in India's development process and is highly malleable, acquiring pertinent meanings in specific contexts. Case-study evidence from two project villages in a south Indian district shows that the attempt to depoliticise this programme of panchayat politics fails, but sets up the ground for depoliticisation of another sort, by distancing watershed project spaces from pro-poor progressive politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2007
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2. The Making of Land and the Making of India: By Nikita Sud New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2020, 253 pp., 1495 INR/£52.00 GBP (hardback), ISBN (print edition): 978-0-19-013020-6.

Author

Chhotray, Vasudha and Singh, David

Subjects
*POUND sterling, *POWER (Social sciences), *POLITICAL parties, *REAL estate business, *INTERNATIONAL financial institutions, *WECHSLER Intelligence Scale for Children
Abstract

Nikita Sud describes her latest book as "a telling of the life of contemporary India, as if land mattered" (p. xiii). Sud argues that neither land nor the state are fixed entities, and the process of land-making in India is itself forged by the process of state-making. The state occupies a central presence in this work, where Sud, in Chapters 1 and 2, brings into focus the intertwined lives of the state with the many lives of land. [Extracted from the article]

Published
2022
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