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Property in India: Global Perspectives, National Issues

In: Land Policies in India

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  • Sony Pellissery

    (National Law School of India University)

  • Harvey M. Jacobs

    (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Abstract

Property—who should own and who control land—has been a central and contentious issue throughout Indian history. The long-standing tensions within Indian society were further sharpened during the time of British colonization, and then from the time of Indian independence in 1947 to the present took on strong symbolic, political, and practical content. Some of this is because of the traditional population distribution within India, with large numbers of people who continue to engage in agriculture and thus depend directly on land for sustenance. But much of it is also cultural, as it is in so many other parts of the world, where the ownership and control of land is linked to conceptions of independence of the individual and family.

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  • Sony Pellissery & Harvey M. Jacobs, 2017. "Property in India: Global Perspectives, National Issues," India Studies in Business and Economics, in: Sony Pellissery & Benjamin Davy & Harvey M. Jacobs (ed.), Land Policies in India, pages 207-227, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isbchp:978-981-10-4208-9_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-4208-9_11
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