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Steel Plant: Orissa State, India, 1955
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No one knows exactly how many Adivasis (members of India’s indigenous “tribal” populations) were displaced as a result of the establishment of the Hindustan Steel Plant at Rourkela in 1955, a landmark project of the Indian and West German governments established during the Cold War. What official figures do reveal are the numbers of settlements destroyed and the extent of land alienated. From this apparent oversight we are able to identify the “Plan” as promoting a uniquely modern form of forced displacement, a consequence of the colonial tendency towards spatial separation and the postcolonial aspiration for technological modernity. Aspirations to an indigenous technological modernity required the material demonstration of the possibility of a desired future with little trace of foreign collaboration. This contradictory vision would be manifested through the violent erasure of place and people in order to permit the state to claim success in its project of future postcolonial transformation.
Title: Steel Plant: Orissa State, India, 1955
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No one knows exactly how many Adivasis (members of India’s indigenous “tribal” populations) were displaced as a result of the establishment of the Hindustan Steel Plant at Rourkela in 1955, a landmark project of the Indian and West German governments established during the Cold War.
What official figures do reveal are the numbers of settlements destroyed and the extent of land alienated.
From this apparent oversight we are able to identify the “Plan” as promoting a uniquely modern form of forced displacement, a consequence of the colonial tendency towards spatial separation and the postcolonial aspiration for technological modernity.
Aspirations to an indigenous technological modernity required the material demonstration of the possibility of a desired future with little trace of foreign collaboration.
This contradictory vision would be manifested through the violent erasure of place and people in order to permit the state to claim success in its project of future postcolonial transformation.
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