ABSTRACT In 2014, the state of Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated by the Indian government, leaving the truncated state without a capital city. A period of political uncertainty before bifurcation and the announcement of the new capital city created possibilities for land speculation and for the acceleration of the commodification of real estate in different parts of the state. Concentrating on Guntur-Vijayawada in the Coastal Andhra region and Donakonda town close to the Rayalaseema region, this article explores how speculative investments based on political calculations by members of regional elite castes translated into the emergence of competing regional investment zones as possible future choices of the capital city. Through an extended and largely ethnographic study, this article shows how caste politics and regional processes of land speculation led to land transfers without violent struggles between different groups. Rather, the cultural politics of regional differentiation and the economy of anticipation allowed a pragmatic convergence of interests to emerge, where acquisition of agricultural land was followed by silent dispossession.

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预测未来资本：安得拉邦的地区种姓争夺、投机和无声剥夺

摘要 2014 年，安得拉邦被印度政府一分为二，被截断的邦没有首府。分裂之前的一段政治不确定性和新首都的宣布为土地投机和加速该州不同地区的房地产商品化创造了可能性。本文以安得拉沿海地区的 Guntur-Vijayawada 和靠近 Rayalaseema 地区的 Donakonda 镇为中心，探讨了基于地区精英种姓成员政治算计的投机性投资如何转化为竞争性地区投资区的出现，作为未来可能的选择首都。通过一项广泛的、主要的民族志研究，本文展示了种姓政治和土地投机的区域过程如何导致土地转让，而不同群体之间不会发生暴力斗争。相反，区域分化的文化政治和预期经济允许出现务实的利益融合，在获得农业用地之后是无声的剥夺。