Book Review: On the Sociology of Dispossession in Contemporary India

2020-12
Sari, Enes
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Michael Levien, Dispossession without Development Land Grabs in Neoliberal India, Oxford University Press, 2018, 332 pp., ISBN: 9780190859152.
http://www2.feas.metu.edu.tr/metusd/ojs/index.php/metusd/article/view/1100
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/93228
Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Article

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E. Sari, “Book Review: On the Sociology of Dispossession in Contemporary India,” ODTÜ Gelişme Dergisi, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 291–295, 2020, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: http://www2.feas.metu.edu.tr/metusd/ojs/index.php/metusd/article/view/1100.
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