Property Rights

A look into the importance of property rights and its evolution in India

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)


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

— 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)