The Price of Land: Acquisition, Conflict, Consequence

The book probes the conflict over land acquisition—a problem that has dominated the media and popular imagination. With clarity and depth, it explores certain basic questions like the realities concerning the issue of land acquisition in the present day. It analyses in an accessible writing style the economics of the land market and problems in land pricing. It analyses the role of state intervention especially the contradiction between the role of the state as maker of land reforms and as one that acquires land. It also takes up changes in the land market and the agents involved. Prof. Sanjoy Chakravorty also views the legal and policy approaches to resolving crises relating to land acquisition, one of the biggest problems in India’s development.