Acknowledgements

We are thankful to the World Bank for the financial grant for the ‘Involuntary Resettlement and Rehabilitation’ project provided to the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). We are grateful to IGNOU authorities for permitting us to use the project funds for organizing the national seminar on urgent issues in resettlement and rehabilitation in India.

We would like to thank Michael M. Cernea for writing the Foreword of this volume and encouraging us to publish a selection of papers presented at the seminar. He kindly read all the chapters of this volume, except Chapter 6, and gave his critical remarks, which shaped the orientation of this volume.

We take this opportunity to thank T.J. Jitha, Parimala and Anil Pandey for ...

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