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Author(s): Kuntala Lahiri-dutt
ISBN(s): 9781472424709, 1472424700
Edition: New edition
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Year: 2014
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1472424700 

ISBN 13: 9781472424709

Author: Kuntala Lahiri-dutt

Social science research is emerging on a range of issues around large and small-scale mining, connecting them to broader social, cultural, political, historical and economic factors rather than purely measuring the environmental impacts of mining. Within this broader context of global scholarly attention on extractive industries, this book explores two specific contexts: the cultural politics of coal and coal mining, within the context of one particular country, India, which is the third largest coal producer in the world. Both contexts are special; with its separate Ministry, coal occupies pride of place in contemporary India, shaping the energy future and influencing the economic and political milieu of the country. The supremacy attributed to coal mining in contemporary India represents how ’coal nationalism’ has replaced ’coal colonialism’ in the country, turning this commodity into an icon, a national symbol. In recent years the extraction of coal in forest-covered resource peripheries has dispossessed and pauperised many tribal and rural communities who have used these resource-rich lands for their livelihoods for generations. The combustion of coal to produce electricity constitutes the compelling need, and the factor that prevents the Indian state from fully engaging with the impending realities of a climate-changed future. All these reasons make the timing of this book of crucial importance. In particular, The Coal Nation explores the complex history of coal in India; from its colonial legacies to contemporary cultural and social impacts of mining; land ownership and moral resource rights; protective legislation for coal as well as for the indigenous and local communities; the question of legality, illegitimacy and illicit mining and of social justice. Presenting cutting-edge multidisciplinary social science research on coal and mining in India, The Coal Nation initiates a productive dialogue amongst academics and between them and activists.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction to Coal in India: Energising the Nation

PART I — JUSTICE, LEGALITY AND HISTORY
Chapter 2. Between Informal Legitimacy and Illegality: Coal Mining at the Limits of Justice
Chapter 3. Coal in Colonial Assam: Exploration, Trade and Environmental Consequences
Chapter 4. Border Mining: State Politics, Migrant Labour and Land Relations along the India–Bangladesh Borderlands
Chapter 5. Slaughter Mining and the “Yielding Collier”: The Politics of Safety in the Jharia Coalfields 1895–1950
Chapter 6. Stranded Between the State and the Market: “Uneconomic” Mine Closure in the Raniganj Coal Belt

PART II — MINING DISPLACEMENT AND OTHER SOCIAL IMPACTS
Chapter 7. World Bank, Coal and Indigenous Peoples: Lessons from Parej East, Jharkhand
Chapter 8. “Captive” Coal Mining in Jharkhand: Taking Land from Indigenous Communities
Chapter 9. Coal Mining in Northeastern India in the Age of Globalisation
Chapter 10. Marginalising People on Marginal Commons: The Political Ecology of Coal in Andhra Pradesh
Chapter 11. Water Worries in a Coal Mining Community: Understanding the Problem from the Community Perspective
Chapter 12. Gender in Coal Mining–Induced Displacement and Rehabilitation in Jharkhand

PART III — SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES TO INFORM MINING POLICY
Chapter 13. Colonial Legislation in Postcolonial Times
Chapter 14. On the States’ Ownership and Taxation Rights over Minerals in India
Chapter 15. Key Policy Issues for the Indian Coal-Mining Industry

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