The Heart of the Matter : Development Identity and Violence: Reconfiguring the Debate

Contents: Introduction/Ravi Kumar. 1. Thinking through urban Debris: violence terror and the state/Nandita Badami and Anirban Nigam. 2. Through and beyond: identities and class struggle/Paresh Chandra. 3. No rehabilitation is ecocide and genocide: is there possibility of hope/Savyasaachi. 4. Ventilating predicament of development: new economic enclaves and structural violence in India/Manisha Tripathy Pandey. 5. The artifice of modernity in nation building: analyzing the case of postcolonial Northeast India/Neikolie Kuotsu. 6. Developing bastar: the Dandakaranya Project/Saagar Tiwari.

The volume addresses the complex relationship between Development, Identity and Violence from different dimensions. It explores the idea of development beyond its appearances and delves deeper into its essence. India has been a site of tumultuous changes in recent times as a consequence of its shift towards neoliberalism. This shift has not only introduced a new framework of development but has also produced its side effects. Chapters in this volume make an effort to critically engage with these issues trying to reconfigure the ongoing debates on development. (jacket)