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Elucidate the concerns of growing urban displacement dynamics in India.

  • UPSC 2019
  • 10 marks
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Displacement in India is usually discussed as something dams do to villages. It is now equally something done within and by cities. Walter Fernandes estimates over 60 million people displaced by development between 1947 and 2000, tribals more than 40 per cent of them and only about a third resettled in any planned way. The…

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  • Displacement inside the city: demolition as routine
  • Displacement by the city's expansion
  • The mechanism: why relocation impoverishes
  • The 2020 exodus as urban displacement
  • Conclusion

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