Governing India’s Land

Nikita Sud

World Development, 2014, vol. 60, issue C, 43-56

Abstract: Under conditions of market-orientation and globalization, land is being transferred from agriculture and common property uses, to corporate farming, private industry, and the service sector. How are intra- and international land transactions governed? Using the case of India, this paper emphasizes the sub-national scale. Fieldwork in Gujarat, West Bengal, and Tamil Nadu reveals States to be competing with each other to attract private investment. Yet, given institutional and political variation, their land provision ranges from attempted market-friendly policy change, to narrower state–business alliances. It is time for scholarship and resultant policy recommendations to look beyond the national and global scales.

Keywords: Asia; India; land; sub-national policy process; economic liberalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.03.015

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