Land rights in India: policies, movements and challenges

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly

Part 1: Issues of Land Dependents
2. ‘If we have land, we would be human’: The implications of landlessness in a Bihar village Anand Chakravarti
3. Reconfiguring ideas of land, river and forest in the context of the Indira Sagar Polavaram National Project on the Godavari R Umamaheshwari
4. Politics of Commons: Power relations and intersecting gender, caste and tribe contestations in Rajasthan Soma Parthasarthy
5. Is there no alternative?: Land laws and tribals’ rights in Orissa Vidhya Das
6. Examining nature and composition of land lease arrangements in India: Exploratory analysis R Vijay and Y Sreenivasulu

Part 2: Revisiting Land Reforms from Social Justice Perspective
7. The political economy of land reforms in India: Retrospect and Prospect Mangesh Kulkarni
8. Land rights through land reforms: A shift in the vision and social transformation in Karnataka Chandrashekhar Damle
9. Issues and challenges of land dependents: The case of dalits in Uttar Pradesh Prashant Trivedi
10. Revisiting Land reforms: Kerala Experience Suma Scaria

Part: 3: Reviewing Existing Policies and Laws
11. Questioning Eminent Domain: Expanding the ambit of land rightsAnusha
12. The Land Acquisition Act 2013 and livelihood losersWalter Fernandes
13. Asserting community forest rights on forest land in India: Emergence of paradigms under the forest right actMeenal Tatpati and Neema Pathak-Broome


Part 4: People’s Movements on Land Question
14. People’s response to Land dispossession: Comparative analysis of movements across IndiaSujit Kumar
15. Revisiting Bhoodan and Gramdan in the context of land rights and social transformationParag Cholkar

Part 5: Issues and Challenges of Land Governance
16. Land governance: Issues, challenges and way forwardB B Srivastava
17. The State and land records modernisation: Issues and challenges

This volume engages with the topical issue of land rights in neoliberal India. It examines government policies, laws, land governance and land reforms from the perspective of social justice and people’s response to dispossession of land.

Looking beyond the dominant discourse of land acquisition and the conception of land as a commodity for economic growth, the book explores critical themes including issues of social identity, culture, livelihood and food security through a study of land reform; reviews existing land policies and legal dimensions; and discusses issues and challenges of land governance and land dependents as well as perspectives from people’s movements.

Lucidly written, based on empirical research, and comprehensive in its treatment of a contentious concern, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of economics and public policy, development studies, political science, and political economy. It will also interest scholars of South Asian studies and sociology.

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