Development and Displacement in Odisha A Comparative Study of NALCO and Rengali Dam Project

Abstract

The attempt to achieve modern industrial growth has been based on two interrelated newlineprocesses: one, the indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources; and two, the newlinetransformation of people, often against their will, into a disposed working class. These newlineprocesses were not new; they had their antecedents in India s history of colonial and newlineprecolonial extraction, and they continued after independence, though they were legitimized newlinein different ways. During the colonial period, modernization was part of the imperial mission newlineof civilization and improvement of the natives. For the independent state, modernization was newlineessential to the project of national development. The ideology of national development has newlinebeen used to legitimize exploitation. newlineThe current push towards globalization, privatization, and liberalization, has displaced large newlinenumber people e number people from their own habitat. Indeed, this form of development newlinediscourse now questions the fundamental social, cultural and economic assumptions of newlinedevelopment and purports to offer alternative conceptualizations that produce benefits and newlinereduce. newline