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9780195638622

Common Lands and Customary Law Institutional Change in North India over the Past Two Centuries

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195638622

  • ISBN10:

    019563862X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1996-10-31
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

This book seeks to dispel the notion that communally held resources are necessarily open to private exploitation and misuse. It argues that customary law and institutions of property rights were devised by village communities to check the misuse of common property resources.

Author Biography

Minoti Chakravarty-Kaul is a Reader in Economics at Lady Shri Ram College in the University of Delhi.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Maps
Abbreviations
Common Lands in History and Theory
Regional Patterns
Colonial Perception and the Commons
Institutions and the Commons
Claiming the Waste
Enter Customary Law
The Embattled Commons
Conclusion: And So the Commons
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
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