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Occupancy right, its history and incidents; together with an introduction dealing with land tenure in ancient India

Occupancy right, its history and incidents; together with an introduction dealing with land tenure in ancient India

Radharomon Mookerjee

Paperback

General LawIndian & South Asian HistoryPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 9353604222
ISBN13: 9789353604226
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 30 2019
Pages: 436
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.97 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Who truly owns the soil they till, and on what forgotten rights does that claim rest? In Occupancy Right, Its History and Incidents, Radharomon Mookerjee opens a window onto the deep foundations of Indian land law and agrarian society. Its questions still matter today. Written as a rigorous legal history monograph, the work traces occupancy rights in India across centuries, from ancient Indian land tenure and early juristic texts to the complexities of colonial administration. A substantial introductory study of land tenure in ancient India sets out the main forms of holding and control, before examining how specific rights of occupation, cultivation, transfer, and protection were articulated in different periods. The result is a landmark land tenure study in India that reveals how ancient India property systems continued to shape later debates over peasant security, landlord power, and the authority of the state. For legal historians and for Indian history scholars, as well as lawyers seeking a property law reference book grounded in context, Mookerjee's analysis remains a touchstone in Indian agrarian law history and Indian tenancy law studies. It embodies colonial era legal scholarship at its most careful, combining textual insight with close attention to judicial reasoning, and stands as an enduring academic book on land law and occupancy rights in India. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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