SINGUR, India — Barely a month before Tata, one of India’s most powerful conglomerates, was due to roll out the world’s cheapest car from a new factory on these former potato and rice fields, a peasant uprising has forced....for full story click link below.  Thank you New York Times!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/world/asia/17india.html?ref=world&pagewanted=all

July 31, 2008

Some 600 families have reportedly been flooded out of their homes....

The Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, Toronto, released a 22 page summary of its workshop on the Ethnics of Development-Induced Displacement held on Oct 25,2004. Jay Drydyk, Pablo Bose and Peter Penz were the conveners.

Can Compensation Prevent Impoverishment?, has been printed and will be in bookstores next week. We attach to this email a flier printed by the Oxford UP advertising the volume, with the book's attractive cover and endorsements. See its brochure.