Large dams have evoked controversial debates about development paths, effectiveness, environmental consequences, and social justice. This book deals with the controversies on developmental aspects of large dams with a particular focus on the Narmada case in India. Based on extensive field data and research, the author's substantial and innovative analysis shows how local demands for resettlement and rehabilitation were transformed into a radical anti-dam campaign linked to national and transnational movement networks. The book explains the Narmada conflict and shows how it is embedded in and shaped by a wider field of force of capitalist development at national and transnational scales. The analysis emphasizes how the Narmada dam project is related to national and global processes of capitalist development, and relates the Narmada Valley movement to contemporary popular struggles against dispossession in India and beyond.