Introduction. Land, ‘Development’ and ‘Security’ in Bangladesh and India

The Politics of Knowledge Economy and Sustainability of Tribal Knowledge and Health in India

“…Such national interests are, for example, vested in issues of raising plantation for timber-logging and bio-diesel/bio-fuel (Kher, 2005;Mishra, 2017aMishra, , 2017b; conservation efforts to create carbon-sink projects in tune with the demands of the international regime REDD+; creation of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) for industrial development (Kaleji et al, 2017;Oza, 2010); development of nuclear projects for electricity generation; building of dams for generation of electricity; increasing agricultural land under cultivation; mining, tourism; and so on. According to Walker (2008), more than 500,000 hectares of forestland was seized for development projects, between 2001 and 2006 more than the previous 20 years aggregated together (Ahasan & Gardner, 2016;Gardner & Gerharz, 2016).…”

Politics of a Transformative Rural: Development, Dispossession and Changing Caste-Relations in West Bengal, India

“…Naturally, this discussion is often at analytical crossroads. However, such divergence only indicates the complexities involved in the local realities of land use, which in a sense is also the point of convergence amongst this varied literature, as its main aim remains to explore the nuanced and complex interrelationships between groups of users, legality, the state, and customary forms of access, cross cutting discourses of development, modernity, belonging and rights (Gardner and Gerharz 2016).…”

We demand work! ‘Dispossession’, patronage and village labour in Bibiyana, Bangladesh

“…Münster and Münster 2012;Gardner and Gerharz 2016). In contrast is the neoliberal narrative of 'development'.…”

“…Reports have it that nearly one percent of agricultural land is being lost each year to unplanned building, causing irreversible environmental damage and threatening the country's hard-won food security; other estimates suggest that over the next 25 years 50 percent of the country's arable will be lost. Indeed, Feldman and Geisler call the country 'an epi-centre of displacement ' (2012, 973; see also Gardner and Gerharz 2016). Kathy Le Mons Walker's observation that land is the main site of struggle in India (2008) applies equally to Bangladesh, even whilst in other quarters the country is being applauded for its advances in measures of human development (Dreze and Sen 2013).…”