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# Property Rights — Syllabus

**Books**

* Sanjoy Chakravorty, 

  *The Price of Land: Acquisition, Conflict, Consequence*

  , Oxford University Press (2013)

* Granville Austin, 

  *Working a Democratic Constitution: A History of the Indian Experience*

  , Oxford University Press (1999)

* Sudhir Krishnaswamy, 

  *Democracy and Constitutionalism in India: A Study of the Basic Structure Doctrine*

   (2009)

* T.R. Andhyarujina, 

  *The Kesavananda Bharati Case: The Untold Story of Struggle for Supremacy by Supreme Court and Parliament*

   (2011)

* Elinor Ostrom, 

  *Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action*

   (1990)

* Madhav Gadgil & Ramachandra Guha, 

  *This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India*

  , Oxford University Press (1992)

* Sharad Singh Negi, 

  *Indian Forestry Through the Ages*

  , Indus Publishing (1994)

* N.C. Saxena, 

  *Forests, People and Profit: New Equations for Sustainability*

  , Nataraj Publishers (1995)

* John Locke, 

  *Second Treatise of Government*

   (1689)

* Robert Nozick, 

  *Anarchy, State, and Utopia*

   (1974)

* Friedrich Hayek, 

  *The Constitution of Liberty*

   (1960)

* Friedrich Hayek, 

  *Law, Legislation and Liberty*

   (1973)

* Milton Friedman, 

  *Capitalism and Freedom*

   (1962)

* John Rawls, 

  *A Theory of Justice*

   (1971)

* Richard Epstein, 

  *Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain*

   (1985)

* Jeremy Waldron, 

  *The Right to Private Property*

   (1988)

* Amartya Sen, 

  *Development as Freedom*

   (1999)

* Ramachandra Guha, 

  *The Unquiet Woods*

   (1989)

* Hernando de Soto, 

  *The Mystery of Capital*

   (2000)

* A.L. Gandhi, 

  *Right to Property: Its Changing Dimensions*

   (1985)

* Sanjiv Agrawal, 

  *The Indian Federalists: The Original Will of India's Founding Fathers*

   (2014)

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**Academic Papers**

* Jaivir Singh, "Separation of Powers and the Erosion of the 'Right to Property' in India," 

  *Constitutional Political Economy*

   17 (2006): 303–324

* Jaivir Singh, "(Un)Constituting Property: The Deconstruction of the 'Right to Property' in India," CSLG Working Paper Series, CSLG/WP/04-05

*   [A Word on Eminent Domain](https://www.ielrc.org/content/a0902.pdf)

   — Usha Ramanathan, International Environmental Law Research Centre, in Lyla Mehta (ed.), 

  *Displaced by Development – Confronting Marginalisation and Gender Injustice*

   (Sage, 2009)

* Garrett Hardin, "The Tragedy of the Commons," 

  *Science*

   (1968)

* Trupti Parekh & Parth J. Shah, "Keepers of Forests: Foresters or Forest Dwellers?" in 

  *Terracotta Reader: A Market Approach to the Environment*

  , Centre for Civil Society (2005)

* Arnab Kumar Hazra, "History of Conflict over Forests in India: A Market-Based Resolution," Working Paper Series, Julian L. Simon Centre for Policy Research, Liberty Institute (2002)



**Reports**

* Law Commission of India, 

  *Tenth Report: Law of Acquisition and Requisition of Land*

   (1958)

* National Forest Commission, 

  *Report, Chapter Two: Forests in India*

   (2006)