The coal nation histories, ecologies and politics of coal in India - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala 1956- (Farnham, Surrey, 2014)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; The Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction to Coal in India: Energising the Nation; PART I JUSTICE, LEGALITY AND HISTORY; 2 Between Legitimacy and Illegality: Informal Coal Mining at the Limits of Justice; 3 Coal in Colonial Assam: Exploration, Trade and Environmental Consequences; 4 Border Mining: State Politics, Migrant Labour and Land Relations along the India-Bangladesh Borderlands; 5 Slaughter Mining and the 'Yielding Collier': The Politics of Safety in the Jharia Coalfields
6 Stranded Between the State and the Market: 'Uneconomic' Mine Closure in the Raniganj Coal BeltPART II MINING DISPLACEMENT AND OTHER SOCIAL IMPACTS; 7 World Bank, Coal and Indigenous Peoples Lessons from Parej East, Jharkhand; 8 'Captive' Coal Mining in Jharkhand: Taking Land from Indigenous Communities; 9 Coal Mining in Northeastern India in the Age of Globalisation; 10 Marginalising People on Marginal Commons: The Political Ecology of Coal in Andhra Pradesh; 11 Water Worries in a Coal Mining Community: Understanding the Problem from the Community Perspective
12 Gender in Coal Mining Induced Displacement and Rehabilitation in JharkhandPART III SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES TO INFORM MINING POLICY; 13 Colonial Legislation in Postcolonial Times; 14 On the States' Ownership and Taxation Rights over Minerals in India; 15 Key Policy Issues for the Indian Coal-Mining Industry; Index
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