Description
Steel Town Adivasis: Industry and Inequality in Eastern India presents an analysis of class formation in the industrial town, Rourkela in the eastern Indian state Odisha, and the ways this process relates to regional ethnicity and caste.
This study is based on long-term ethnographic research conducted in the 2000s and oral histories covering the period from the inception of the steel plant, and it focusses on the region窶冱 窶�tribes窶�, indigenous people or Adivasis who lost their land when the Government of India established a large steel plant in Rourkela in the 1950s.
The book will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, historians interested in industrial labour and work, in class, caste, Adivasis, ethnicity and their dynamic entanglement, as well as students and activists.
Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Glossary
1. Industry and Inequality in an Eastern Indian Steel Town: An Introduction
1.1 The Steel Town Rourkela
1.2 Historical Foundations and Analytical Concepts
1.2.1 Industry
1.2.2 Inequalities I: Class
1.2.3 Inequalities II: Ethnicity, Caste and 窶狼ribe窶�
1.3 Methodology and Outline
1.3.1 Entry into the 窶炉ield窶� and Methodology
1.3.2 Outline of the Book
1.3.3 A Brief Note on the Text
2. The Birth of RSP and the Making of Odisha
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Foreign Collaborators and Site Selection
2.3 Land Acquisition and the Making of Odisha
2.3.1 Economy and Society in Rourkela before the coming of RSP
2.3.2 Local Protest against Land Acquisition
2.3.3 Land Acquisition and the Merger of Odisha
2.4 The Construction of RSP and the Making of Odisha
2.4.1 Work and Life on the Construction Sites
2.4.2 Ethnic Violence in Rourkela
2.4.3 The Construction of RSP and of the Odia Nation
2.5 Conclusion: States and Identifications in Eastern India
3. Workers, Unions and the State in Rourkela, 1959窶�1995
3.1 Introduction: The Industrial Working Class(es) in Rourkela and India
3.2 RSP Workers, the Unions and Odia Nationalism
3.2.1 The Ethnicisation of Union Rivalries
3.2.2 The Odia-isation of the RMS and the RSP workforce
3.2.3 The Displaced People and the 窶労harkhand窶� Union
3.3 RSP Workers and Economic Liberalisation
3.3.1 The New Communist Union and a New Category of Workers
3.3.2 The Contract Worker Movement
3.3.3 The Re-emergence of the Displaced People窶冱 Movement
3.3.4 The New Recognised Union
3.4 Conclusion: Struggles about Class and Class Struggles in Rourkela
4. The Adivasi Worker
4.1 RSP Workers in the 2000s
4.2 Adivasi RSP Workers
4.2.1 Working, Drinking, and Shirking
4.2.2 The Uneducated, the Educated, and the Savvy
4.2.3 Adivasi Workers and the 窶朗ew RSP Family窶�
4.3 Adivasi Workers Beyond Regular Employment
4.3.1 The Casualisation of Labour: Local and Global
4.3.2 The Uneven Social Effects of Casualisation
4.3.3 Entrepreneurial Spirit
4.3.4 Wealth Spirits
4.4 Conclusion: 窶狼ribe窶� and Class at Work
5. Adivasi Town Dwellers
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Making of the Steel Town
5.2.1 Vision and Master Plan
5.2.2 From Indian 窶牢alad Bowl窶� to Odia 窶弄elting Pot窶�
5.3 The Steel Town and Rourkela
5.3.1 Urban Development beyond the Steel Town
5.3.2 Bastis and Resettlement Colonies
5.3.3 From Adivasi to 窶廊abour Class' Spaces
5.3.4 Centring and Marginalising
5.4 Conclusion: 窶狼ribe窶�, Class and Urban Space
6. Steel Town Adivasis: Class and 窶狼ribe窶� in Rourkela
Bibliography
Index
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