TY - GEN AU - Bhagat-Ganguly, Varsha Ed. TI - Land rights in India : policies, movements and challenges SN - 9781138667976 U1 - 333.73 PY - 2016/// CY - New Delhi PB - Routledge KW - N1 - Contents List of tables Viii List of figures X Contributors Xi Foreword by Chetan Singh Xiii Acknowledgement Xviii List of abbreviations XiX 1 Introduction 1 VARSHA BHAGAT-GANGU PART I Issues of land dependents 13 2 'If we had land, we would be human': the implications of landlessness in a Bihar village 15 ANAND CHAKRAVARTI 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 49 SOMA K. PARTHASARATHY 5 Is there no alternative? Land laws and tribal rights in Odisha 65 VIDHYADAS 6 Examining change in the nature and composition of land lease arrangements in India:an exploratory analysis 80 R. VIJAY ANDY. SREENIVASULU PART II Revisiting land reforms from a social justice Perspective 101 7 The political economy of land reform in India: retrospect and prospect 103 MANGESH KULKARNI 8 Land rights through land reforms: a shift in the vision and social transformation CHANDRASHEKHARA B. DA..MLE 119 9 Issues and challenges of land dependents: the case of dalits in Uttar Pradesh PRASHANT K TRIVEDI 134 10 Revisiting land reforms: Kerala experience SUMASCARIA 146 PART III Reviewing existing policies and laws 161 11 Questioning eminent domain: expanding the ambit Of land rights 163 ANUSHA 12 The Land Acquisition Act 2013 and the livelihood losers WALTER FERNANDES 179 13 Asserting community forest rights on forest land in India: emerging paradigms under the Forest Rights Act 195 MEENAL TATPATI AND NEEMA PATHAK-BROOME PART IV People's movements on land question 213 14 People's response to land dispossession: comparative analysis of movements across India 215 SUITKUMAR 15 Revisiting Bhoodan and Gramdan in the context of land rights and social transformation 230 PARAG CHOLKAR PARTV Issues and challenges of land governance 247 16 Land governance: issues, challenges and way forward 249 B . B. SRIVASTAVA 17 The state and land records modernisation: issues and challenges 268 PRADEEP N AYAK Afterword 285 Glossary 289 Index 293 ER -