The present paper aims at narration of the similarities of the processes and outcomes between the contemporary processes of land acquisition and displacement, on the one hand, and the historical occurrence of the land enclosures and expropriations, on the other. As observable, from the ongoing phenomena of the large-scale land acquisitions, land grabs, and the forced expropriation and exodus of native folks from their agricultural lands, forests, and the hitherto unclaimed lands etc., the

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... of accumulation are let loose by the states that are hypnotised by the glittering charisma of the neo-liberal political economic ideology. Viewed in terms of inter-personal and inter-sectorial effects, the governments are playing a 'Reverse Robin Hood' role, in confiscating the lands and forests like resources of the poor for the purpose of handing the same over to the wealthy and rich capitalist class, in the name of economic growth and development. Assuming that this type of land redistribution is nothing short of the 'class robbery', the paper argues that, like the enclosures, the contemporary land grab, both by the official and the corporate routes is a dignified replay of the historically conditioned circumstances to facilitate the primitive accumulation as well as the accumulation proper; the former by means of expropriation and the latter through the designed exodus of the pauperised folks to the doorsteps of the stables of the capitalist appropriators.