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teachers employed by the two government schools. It must be highlightedthat all these forms of livelihood, without exception, were functioning belowtheir potential, even before displacement.Though it is easy to describe the various livelihoods in Sampur, it was not soeasy to categorise them along those lines. The reason for this, as noted byChambers and Conway (1992: 8), is that “[r]ural livelihoods, themselves,comprise one, or more often several, activities.” However, as discussed inSection 5, we have, in this paper, applied a consistent mechanism tocategorise the livelihoods of the people of Sampur. This was useful ingenerating new insights into the livelihoods of these people.Figure 2: Frequency distributions of pre- and post-displacement (percapita total household incomes)Frequency54321Median = Rs.870332005/6 Per Capita GDP = Rs.13622300100000200000300000400000Panel 1: Pre-displacement total income (Rs.)Frequency15129630Median = Rs.289482006/7 Per Capita GDP = Rs.1632990 100000 200000 300000 400000Panel 2: Post-displacement total income (Rs.)73