Winner of Winner of Global Development Studies Book Award, International Studies Association Winner of Sociology of Development Section Outstanding Book Award, American Sociological Association Winner of Global and Transnational Sociology Section Best Book Award, American Sociological Association Winner of Political Economy of World System (PEWS) Section Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, Asia and Asian-America Section Book Award, American Sociological Association.

Preface: from Narmada to Rajpura --
Introduction --
Genesis of the land broker state --
Rajpura --
Dispossession --
Differentiation by speculation --
Peasants in a knowledge economy --
On the margins of a world city --
Reprise: dispossession without development --
Politics after dispossession --
Conclusion: ¿land wars¿ and development --
Notes --
References.

In Dispossession without Development, Michael Levien seeks to uncover the structural underpinnings of India's so-called ""land wars."" He examines how land dispossession changed with India's shift from state-led development to neoliberalism and the consequences of these changes for dispossessed farmers in contemporary India.