Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 The river and the rage: Introducing the Narmada Valley conflict; 2 Losing ground: Accumulation by dispossession in the Narmada Valley; 3 Everyday tyranny and rightful resistance: The emergence of the Khedut Mazdoor Chetna Sangath; 4 Discovering the dam: Militant particularist struggles for resettlement and rehabilitation; 5 Towards opposition: The formation of the anti-dam campaign; 6 Cycles of struggle: The trajectory of the anti-dam campaign, 19902000; 7 Enablements and constraints: The making of the Maheshwar anti-dam campaign
8 Development, not destruction: Alternative development as a social movement project9 Whither the rage?: Learning from the Narmada Valley movement process; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Deals with the controversies on developmental aspects of large dams with a particular focus on the Narmada case in India. This book shows how local demands for resettlement and rehabilitation were transformed into a radical anti-dam campaign linked to national and transnational movement networks
