Announcement of the release of the book on Internal Displacement in India. Bangalore: A book on Internal Displacement in India published by The Books for Change, Bangalore was formally released by Dr.P.V.Shenoi, renowned economist and the Chairman of the Board of Agricultural Finance Corporation at a function at ECC, Bangalore. The Book titled The Nowhere People, edited by Dr.Siby Tharakan, Assistant Director, ECC and a development practitioner is a collection of papers written by eminent scholars and activists in the field of Development. It is priced at Rs:180/- in India and US$12.00 outside India. Copies are available from: The Books for Change, 139 Richmond road, Bangalore 560026, India Phone: +91-80-5586682 Fax: +91-80-5586284 e-mail: [log in to unmask] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Nowhere People Edited by Siby Tharakan (Asst. Director, ECC, Bangalore Member, Inter Agency Network of Education in Emergencies) Published by Books for Change, 139 Richmond road, Bangalore 560026, India Phone: +91-80-5586682 Fax: +91-80-5586284 e-mail: [log in to unmask] Price: Rs 180/- in India US $ 12.00 outside India Contents 1. Some Issues Relating to Involuntary Migration D.C.Sah (Professor, Madhya Pradesh Institute of Social Science Research, Ujjain) 2. Rights of Internally Displaced Persons Jeevan Kumar (Professor of Political Science, Bangalore University) 3. Internal Displacement:Individual and Social Consequences Umarao Singh Chaudhari (Former Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Education, Devi Ahilya University, Indore) 4. Development-Induced Displacement and its Impact Antony Dias (Social activist and Research Scholar, National Law School of India University, Bangalore) 5. Big Dams-Boon or Burden?: An overview D. Sunder Raj (Junior faculty, C.D Deshmukh IMPART Centre, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad) 6. Political Economy of Large dam Projects: A case Study of Upper Kolab Project in Koraput District, Orissa Bipin K. Jojo (Faculty member, Department of Social Welfare Administration, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai) 7. Displaced People in Koyana Dam project in Maharashtra:A Study of the Socio-Economic Problems S.N. Pawar & R.B. Patil (Department of Sociology, Shivaji University, Kolhapur) 8. Review of the Land Acqisition Act,1894: A critique Golak Bihari Nath (Reader and Head, Department of Economics, L.N.Cpllege, Orissa) 9. Untold Tales of Nowhere People Arindam. K. Sen (Consultant, Violation Mitigation and Amelioration Project, Oxfam India trust,Calcutta) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should include attribution to the original sources.