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Inter-state Competition, Land Conflicts and Resistance in India

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  • Heather Plumridge Bedi
  • Louise Tillin

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Literature on fiscal federalism has long debated whether inter-jurisdictional competition between subnational units encourages a "race to the bottom", with competition to attract mobile capital leading to lower taxation and expenditure, and, consequently, the under-provision of public goods. The principal concerns of this literature have been taxation and expenditure, but the ability of state governments to acquire land for industry is also critical in the context of subnational competition. In this article, the authors ask how Indian state governments resolve the tensions arising from their dual role as both wooer and regulator of capital, as they simultaneously facilitate land acquisition and engage with movements that challenge it. The authors demonstrate that there is no simple "race to the bottom". Inter-state competition has not produced a simple equation in favour of capital and a side-lining of the concerns of those displaced. Subnational approaches to land acquisition must be understood within local political, social and economic contexts.

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  • Heather Plumridge Bedi & Louise Tillin, 2015. "Inter-state Competition, Land Conflicts and Resistance in India," Oxford Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(2), pages 194-211, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:oxdevs:v:43:y:2015:i:2:p:194-211
    DOI: 10.1080/13600818.2015.1035246
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    1. Kartik Misra, 2019. "Accumulation by Dispossession and Electoral Democracies : An Analysis of Land Acquisition for Special Economic Zones in India," UMASS Amherst Economics Working Papers 2019-16, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics.
    2. Kenneth Bo Nielsen & Heather Plumridge Bedi, 2017. "The regional identity politics of India’s new land wars: Land, food, and popular mobilisation in Goa and West Bengal," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 49(10), pages 2324-2341, October.
    3. Xuefei Ren, 2017. "Land acquisition, rural protests, and the local state in China and India," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 35(1), pages 25-41, February.
    4. Loraine Kennedy, 2017. "State restructuring and emerging patterns of subnational policy-making and governance in China and India," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 35(1), pages 6-24, February.
    5. McDuie-Ra, Duncan & Kikon, Dolly, 2016. "Tribal communities and coal in Northeast India: The politics of imposing and resisting mining bans," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 99(C), pages 261-269.
    6. Deepta Chopra, 2016. "Demand Shortfalls or Supply-side Constraints," Journal of South Asian Development, , vol. 11(2), pages 175-202, August.

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