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In this postcolonial progress-philic age, “progress” in India (and in many other parts of the world) has come to acquire a special meaning which invokes increased marginalization of the already marginalised sections of society, realised through well-orchestrated acts of displacement, insufficient rehabilitation and relentless brutalization of rivers, forests, hills and its indigenous inhabitants. However, all this is done in the name of the “greater common good” with the professed intention of benefitting the entire nation in general and, the poor and the vulnerable in particular. However, in practice, such developmental drives have shown a completely different face proving grossly “ecocidal” and enormously destructive to indigent humans. Development projects of this nature, which include big dams and aggressive mining industries, have brought unforeseen miseries of unimaginable magnitude to the poor tribal populations and the dalits who are systematically disenfranchised, uprooted, displaced and just left to die. These subaltern social groups which invariably have to bear the brunt of the state-sponsored developmental discourse -concretized in behemoth-like projectshave largely disappeared into the irredeemable anonymity of history. Arundhati Roy, in a series of cerebral and polemical essays, has not confined herself to a cosmetic exploration of their plight. She has endeavoured to move beyond the sketchy generalities, the schematic formulations and has tried to reclaim the largely encroached space of these subaltern groups who are hardly heard and even less understood. In this paper I try to show how in the post-developmental (or, anti-developmental) mode, Roy contests and denudes the largely misleading state-backed development discourse, bolstered and seconded by a highly motivated corporate-sponsored cornucopian narrative.

Redefining Development and Reclaiming Subaltern Space: Arundhati Roy and the Post-Developoment Critique Of Indian Modernity