Nandigram is an Eye opener and it is the high time to consider cultural repercussions of Special Economic Zones which is catastrophic.
Village in India i.e. BHARAT was called %u201Crepublic%u201D by itself and its structure was self contained. Several travelers, foreign ideologues and rulers were stunned and astonished to see Village structure. Several marauders could not penetrate into Indian society because village was insulated and self contained.
Foreign Rulers with their maneuvers could dethrone Indian rulers but could not destabilize Indian society. History of the World evidences that wherever Islam or Christianity went , in other words wherever foreigners rules, native culture vanishes without even remnants. Even in Britain, %u201CBritons%u201D were driven away by English and became English country. But in India the same did not happen, for the simple and sole reason that India lives in its Villages.
For a villager land is not a simple materialistic, commercial possession. He attaches sentimentally to the house, land, village, community, village deities, priest, tanks, rivulets , air, water and even to the articles of house hold he possesses. Such possessions makes a villager a cultural being. It is his livelihood and life. Because of such attachment he develops a community life. A villager de-possessed of land is de-possessed of every thing in the world and his life becomes barren and void.
