Impact of Land Acquisition on Women: An Anthropological Case Study on Gokulpur, Paschim Medinipur (India).
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2014-04
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The acquisition of agricultural land for industrialisation leads to a number of socio-economic consequences. The Paschim
Medinipur district in the state of West Bengal is chiefly an agricultural district where more than seventy per cent of the
population lives in the rural area and among them majority depends on agriculture and agriculture related occupations. In
this paper, we have presented some empirical data on the socio- economic consequences of women of the establishment of
the industry on the fertile agricultural land in the Kharagpur subdivision of Paschim Medinipur district in the early 1990s
with the cooperation of West Bengal government.The findings revealed that acquisition of agricultural land for industry
leads to change among the women as well as children of landloser families who depended on agriculture for their livelihood.
Field data showed that the school dropout rate among female members of landloser families have been increased than nonlandloser
families. This study has also showed that after the acquisition, livelihood pattern have been changed among the
female members of landloser families. Moreover the “age at marriage” have been decreased among the girls of landloser
families than non- landloser families.
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Land acquisition, Industrilisation, Landloser, Women, Gender, dropout, Age at marriage
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Majumder A. Impact of Land Acquisition on Women: An Anthropological Case Study on Gokulpur, Paschim Medinipur (India). International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies. 2014 Apr; 1(4): 26-34.