Land rights in India : policies, movements and challenges /: policies, movements and challenges. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly.
• Editors: Bhagat-Ganguly, Varsha
• Contents: List of abbreviations. List of tables. Foreword. Acknowledgements. 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 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.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 333.30954; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General; Land tenure -- India; Human rights -- India; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General; Human rights; Land tenure; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; India; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317354017
• Related ISBNs: 131735401X; 9781138955790; 1138955795
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed March 21, 2016).
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