Saving agricultural labour from agriculture: SEZs and politics of silence in Tamil Nadu.

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This paper is partly based on research conducted in conjunction with the Politics of Special Economic Zones in India project coordinated by the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, City University of New York, and funded by the Ford Foundation. I am thankful to the coordinators and co-researchers on this project, Rob Jenkins and Loraine Kennedy in particular, for comments and suggestions that helped me sharpen the focus of the paper. The paper also benefi ted a lot from useful suggestions from Ajit Menon, M S S Pandian and Padmini Swaminathan, and discussions with A Bhavana, J Jeyaranjan, Madhumita Dutta, K Nagaraj and T Veeraian. I thank them all.

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