List of Tables, Figures
Editor/Contributors 
Preface

1. State, Governance and Natural Resource Conflicts
— N.C. Narayanan

   Introduction
   State and Society: A Dialectical Relationship
   State as Development Provider
   Political Economy/Ecology of Natural Resource Use
   Governance and Problems of ‘Governability’
   Contributions in the Volume

2. Governance of Natural Resources in India: Property Rights,
     Legal Pluralism and Other Issues
— Nirmal Sengupta

   Colonial State and Property Rights
   Provider and Regulator State
   Private Initiative
   Customary Rights
   Rights of Panchayats
   User Groups
   Conclusion

3. State, Modernisation and Conflict in Fisheries: Revisting the
   Fishworkers’ Movement in Kerala
— John Kurien

   Introduction
   Background
   The Development Decades
   Crisis and Questions
   Post Script: Dilemmas of Collective Action and Governance

4. Water Control Structures and Conflicts in Lake Vembanad:
    Governance as Mobilisation
— N.C. Narayanan

   Introduction
   Political Economy of Rice-centric Development
   Post-Independence State-led Development Interventions
   Unintended Consequences
   Rice-centric Development, Marginalisation, and Conflicts
   Competing Claims on Lake Vembanad
   Pro-salinity Barrier—The Rice Interest
   Points of Rupture in the Conflict
   Cultural Political Mobilisation of Fishermen
   Process of Negotiation
   Discussion
   Implications for Governance

5. States Conflicting Over Transboundary Waters:
    Analysing the Indo-Bangladesh Case
— Rakesh Tiwary

   Challenges of Utilisation and Governance: Mainly Political
   The Drivers of Transboundary Water Conflict
   Transboundary Water Conflicts: Capturing the Dynamism
   The Dynamics of Conflict Shared Waters of India
   and Bangladesh: The Riparian Structure
   Post Colonial: Political Geography
   The Ganges Water Dispute
   Phases of Dispute
   India’s River Interlinking Programme: Another Cycle?
   Conclusion

6. Tribal Development and Governance
— T. Madhava Menon

   Introduction
   Pre-history
   The Nehruvian Panchsheel
   Violations of the Five Principles
   Local Innovations and their Management
   Concluding Observations

7. Preserving Micro-identities in a World of Directed Change:
    The Experience of Wayanad District
— A. Damodaran

   Introduction
   Background
   The Tribal Development Approach of the Dhebar Commission
   How and Why the Dhebar Commission Complements India’s Forest
      and Wildlife Legislations
   The Roots of the Crisis in Wayanad Diagnosis
   The Dynamic of the Adivasi Gothra Sabha Movement
   Preserving Micro-identities in an Environment of Directed Change
   Conclusion

8. Where Should We Go from Here? Changing Approaches of the State,
    Grazing Resources and the Pastoralists of Saurashtra, Gujarat 
— Charul Bharwada and Vinay Mahajan

   Introduction
   Pastoralism in Saurashtra
   Colonial Policies: Framework Governing the Approach

        of Princely States
   Princely States: Grazing Sources and its Access
   Post-Independence State: Changing Priorities
   and Shrinking Pastures
   Modern Agriculture: From Mutual Dependence to Perpetual Conflicts
   Summing Up: The State and the Pastoralists

9. Alloyed Projects, Metalled Resistance:

    A Case of Bauxite Mining in Orissa 
— Smriti Das and N.C. Narayanan
   Introduction
   Policy Reforms and Poverty Paradox
   Externalities of Development: Mineral
   Exploitation in Kashipur
   The Conflict in Kashipur
   People’s Movement in Kashipur
   Stakeholders Within the Network of Governance
   Conflicts and Crisis in Governance

 
Index