Word of the Day | Daily Vocabulary for UPSC

Dispossession is a state of having something taken away from you, particularly your home or land. If a city demolishes houses to build a new highway, it's a kind of dispossession for the people who lived in them.
Possession, or "the fact of owning or occupying," is at the heart of dispossession. The prefix dis- means "not," and this word describes the state of no longer having something that was previously held or possessed.
Historians often describe the dispossession of many Indigenous people across North America when colonial settlers seized the land where their ancestors had lived, and they were forced to migrate.

Dispossession