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020			_a978-0190130206
082			_a333.30954 _bSUD
100			_aSud, Nikita.
245			_aThe making of land and the making of India
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew Delhi _bOxford University Press _c2021
300			_axxiv, 253p.
365			_bRs. 1,495/-
504			_aIntroduction 1. Land, in the Making 2. Land-Making and State-Making 3. Taking Land to Market 4. Grounding the Market: Land as Commodity Plus 5. Making the Political 6. Doing P(p)olitics Conclusion: Indistinction, Entwining, Making, and Remaking
520			_aWhat is land and how is it made? In this penetrating new study of sites in western, eastern and southern India, Nikita Sud argues persuasively that land is not simply the solid surface of the earth. It is best understood as a materially and conceptually dynamic realm, intimately tied to the social. As such, land transitions across porous registers of territory, property, authority, the sacred, history and memory, and contested access and exclusion. While states, markets and politics in post-liberalisation India try to make land suitable for 'growth' and 'development', Sud reveals that the relationship between the soil and institutions is never straightforward. A state attempting to order a layered topography is frequently stretched into shadowy domains of informality and unsanctioned practices. A market may be advanced, but remains precariously embedded in sociality. Politics could challenge the land-making of the state and markets. It may also effect compromises. Attempts at constructing a durable landed order thus reveal our own (dis)orders. In attempting to 'make' the land, Sud's intriguing study shows how the land simultaneously 'makes' us.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aReal property
650			_aIndia
650			_aLand tenure
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