includes index and biblioraphy

For over two decades, large infrastructure development projects have been the subject of major controversies the world over. This book ia a comprhensive account of the well-known Sardar Sarovar Project in India, and the world-wide campaign led against it by the Narmada Bachao Andolan. The book attempts to understand the unfurling crisis around the Project in order to develop positivist methods and evaluative frames. its signincance lies in its contribution to three research issues: first, the theoretical focus on actually existing development; second, a methodological query concerning crisis analysis; and third, the substantive examination of the Narmada Bachao Andolan and its collective action against displacement and despoliation in the Naramada Valley. A must-rad for those interested not only in a detailed analysis of the Sardar Sarovar Project, but also in the anatomy and dynamics of collective action and social movements, in the political economy of resources - in partiuclar of water - and more generally in development studies.