Drawing on an in-depth examination of the existing literature on social mobilization and extensive fieldwork conducted in India, Ashok Swain questions how displaced people mobilize to protest with the help of their social networks.

Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction: Development and Displacement: Struggle for Survival; Chapter 2 India, its Development, Population Displacements and Protests; Chapter 3 Kerala: The State of Successful Protest Mobilization; Chapter 4 Protest Mobilization with Regional Variation: Case of Orissa; Chapter 5 Maoists and Missionaries: Changing Social Network Structure for Successful Protest Mobilization; Chapter 6 Conclusion: Protests in Indian Democracy: Its Emerging Economy and Changing Social Structure;