Session Name: Inequality and the Urban-Rural Divide: Lessons from East and Southeast Asia
Micro-politics of land policy and commercial crops in uplands: a study of the Arunachal Pradesh Land Settlements and Records Act, India
Monday, July 29, 2024
14:00 – 15:45 (GMT+7)
Paper Abstract: This research examines the micropolitics of land tenure formalisation policy in Arunachal Pradesh through an examination of the Arunachal Pradesh Land Settlements and Records Act (2000) and the APLSR (Amendment) of 2018 in the context of commercialisation of agriculture. Through a study of cardamom cultivation by an Indigenous community in Yachuli, Arunachal Pradesh, this research examines how land tenure systems affect the distribution of gains from the commodification of land and crops. It explores the role of local state actors and the local elite to show how the complex interplay of multiple ‘powers of exclusion’ determines the distribution of gains from cardamom cultivation across class, gender and ethnic divisions.
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