Dispossession, Deprivation and Development: Essays for Utsa Patnaik

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, macroeconomic 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.