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Acknowledgements | p. xi |
The river and the rage: Introducing the Narmada Valley conflict | p. 1 |
Dispossession and resistance in the Narmada Valley | p. 5 |
Understanding movement processes | p. 13 |
Losing ground: Accumulation by dispossession in the Narmada Valley | p. 18 |
Accumulation by dispossession in the Narmada Valley | p. 20 |
Accumulation by dispossession and the political economy of postcolonial capitalism in India | p. 38 |
Concluding remarks | p. 45 |
Everyday tyranny and rightful resistance: The emergence of the Khedut Mazdoor Chetna Sangath | p. 47 |
The contours of everyday tyranny | p. 49 |
The emergence of the KMCS | p. 58 |
Rightful resistance and catalytic work in subaltern politics | p. 63 |
Concluding remarks | p. 68 |
Discovering the dam: Militant particularist struggles for resettlement and rehabilitation | p. 70 |
The Narmada Dharangrasta Samiti | p. 71 |
The ARCH Vahini | p. 82 |
The Narmada Ghati Navnirman Samiti | p. 85 |
Concluding remarks | p. 90 |
Towards opposition: The formation of the anti-dam campaign | p. 93 |
The radicalization and abstraction of resistance | p. 94 |
Divergence and convergence in the formation of the anti-dam campaign | p. 108 |
Concluding remarks | p. 116 |
Cycles of struggle: The trajectory of the anti-dam campaign, 1990-2000 | p. 118 |
Jury politics and direct action | p. 119 |
'Hamare Gaon, Mein Hamare Raj' | p. 125 |
The international Narmada campaign and the independent review | p. 131 |
Jury politics revived and revisited | p. 135 |
The limits of jury politics and the political economy of the state | p. 142 |
Concluding remarks | p. 146 |
Enablements and constraints: The making of the Maheshwar anti-dam campaign | p. 149 |
Factors of enablement in the Maheshwar campaign | p. 150 |
The role of women in the Maheshwar campaign | p. 154 |
Factors of constraint in the Maheshwar campaign | p. 158 |
Concluding remarks | p. 168 |
Development, not destruction: Alternative development as a social movement project | p. 170 |
Challenging the postcolonial development project | p. 171 |
Building a capacity for hegemony | p. 187 |
Concluding remarks | p. 192 |
Whither the rage? Learning from the Narmada Valley movement process | p. 194 |
Summary of the argument | p. 194 |
Whither the rage? | p. 199 |
Notes | p. 203 |
Bibliography | p. 211 |
Index | p. 226 |
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