Land rights in India : Policies, movements and challenges
- New Delhi Routledge 2016
- 301p xix
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;