Land Rights in India : Policies, Movements and Challenges.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgement -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- PART I Issues of land dependents -- 2 'If we had land, we would be human': the implications of landlessness in a Bihar village -- 3 Reconfiguring ideas of land, river and forest in the context of the Indira Sagar Polavaram National Project on Godavari -- 4 Politics of commons: power relations and intersecting gender, caste and tribe contestations -- 5 Is there no alternative? Land laws and tribal rights in Odisha -- 6 Examining change in the nature and composition of land lease arrangements in India: an exploratory analysis -- PART II Revisiting land reforms from a social justice perspective -- 7 The political economy of land reform in India: retrospect and prospect -- 8 Land rights through land reforms: a shift in the vision and social transformation -- 9 Issues and challenges of land dependents: the case of dalits in Uttar Pradesh -- 10 Revisiting land reforms: Kerala experience -- PART III Reviewing existing policies and laws -- 11 Questioning eminent domain: expanding the ambit of land rights -- 12 The Land Acquisition Act 2013 and the livelihood losers -- 13 Asserting community forest rights on forest land in India: emerging paradigms under the Forest Rights Act -- PART IV People's movements on land question -- 14 People's response to land dispossession: comparative analysis of movements across India -- 15 Revisiting Bhoodan and Gramdan in the context of land rights and social transformation -- PART V Issues and challenges of land governance -- 16 Land governance: issues, challenges and way forward -- 17 The state and land records modernisation: issues and challenges -- Afterword -- Glossary -- Index.

This volume engages with the topical issue of land rights in neo-liberal India. It reviews government policies, laws, land governance, land reforms from the social justice perspective and people's response to dispossession of land from the citizens' point of view. It also focuses on critical themes like expanding right to land, its management and control, through people-centric governance rather than state-centric management.

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