Land Policies in India : Promises, Practices and Challenges

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
 Human Dignity and Property in Land—A Human Rights Approach  (Benjamin Davy)....Pages 1-33
 Evolution of Property Rights in India  (Madhumita Datta Mitra)....Pages 35-50
 Postcolonial Evolution of Water Rights in India and the United States  (Jesse J. Richardson)....Pages 51-70
 Conflicting Interests and Intelligible Utilisation of Common Property Resources: A Study of a Tropical Wetland in South India  (P. J. Christabell)....Pages 71-88
 Land Transfer Tax Policy Regime and Its Influence on Property Markets: Analysing the Land Transfer Tax Policy of Kerala in the Last Decade  (V. P. Nirmal Roy)....Pages 89-103
 Development or Disaster? Land Acquisition and Dispossession in the Mining Belts and Coastal Zones of Rural Odisha, India  (Sarmistha Pattanaik)....Pages 105-125
 The “Public Purpose” That Is Not Inclusive  (Shruti Yerramilli)....Pages 127-145
 The Cyclical Interaction of Institutional Constraints to Formal Affordable Housing Market in Raipur, India  (Padmini Ram)....Pages 147-165
 City in Crossfire—The Environment Versus Development Debate in Navi Mumbai  (Aparna Vedula, Sarika Bodhankar)....Pages 167-190
 Property Regimes in India: A Study of Political Determinants of Structural Factors  (Deepa Kylasam Iyer)....Pages 191-205
 Property in India: Global Perspectives, National Issues  (Sony Pellissery, Harvey M. Jacobs)....Pages 207-227