displaced and dispossessed leading to fierce resistance struggles, inviting in response, state atrocities and violence.  The phenomenon has become pan-Indian: whether in  Raigad  in Maharashtra,  Singur  and  Nandigram  in West Bengal, in  Jagatsinghapur-Kalinganagar  in Orissa or  Ghaziabad  in Uttar Pradesh, the patterns are comparable. The official argument says that as the