The passing of the Indian Land Acquisition Act by the British colonial government in 1894, which provided the basis for acquiring land from certain Indian peasants in exchange for cash, continued to have ramifications in post-independence India. Though the independent government of India had promised to compensate resettlement associated with large hydroelectric dam projects on a land-for-land basis, this colonial legislation was used once again in order to remove villagers from sites designated for projects such as the Sardar Sarovar Dam in the Narmada Valley, and compensate them with cash.
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Further Readings:
- Baviskar, Amita. In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmade Valley. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Scudder, Thayer. "India's Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP)." Unpublished manuscript, 2003. View PDF
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