Land rights in India : Policies, movements and challenges

Table of contents
List of abbreviations;
List of tables;
Foreword;
Acknowledgements;
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 rights Anusha;
12. The Land Acquisition Act 2013 and livelihood losers Walter Fernandes;
13. Asserting community forest rights on forest land in India: Emergence of paradigms under the forest right act Meenal 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 India Sujit Kumar;
15. Revisiting Bhoodan and Gramdan in the context of land rights and social transformation Parag Cholkar Part 5: Issues and Challenges of Land Governance ;
16. Land governance: Issues, challenges and way forward B B Srivastava;
17. The State and land records modernisation: Issues and challenges Pradeep Nayak; Afterword;
Note on contributors;
Glossary;
Index;