• Patna High Court "erected & established"
• Patna High Court commences work
• Eminent judges
• Eminent lawyers
• Leading cases
• Pillars of the High Court
• Contributions of judges and lawyers in the field of education
• Exceprts of the author's speech.

• Part I: Historical Retrospect. Historical Sikh shrines in Delhi
• Location and construction of Guardwaras
• Delhi Gurdwaras during British regime
• Gurdwara Rakab Ganj dispute
• Khalsa Gurdwara committee, Delhi
• SGPC control over Delhi Gurdwaras
• Delhi Sikh Gurdwaras Parbandhak Committee (DGPC)
• Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Delhi Province
• Bye-laws and rules
• Party politics in SGPC and GPC
• Arbitration
• The Delhi Sikh Gurdwaras (management) ordinance, 1971
• The Delhi Sikh Gurdwaras (management) act, 1971 (24 of 1971)
• Part II: The Delhi Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1971 (82 of 1971). Objects of the act
• Commencement of the act
• Definitions
• Delhi Sikh Gurdwaras management committee
• Executive board of DSGMC
• Machinery for DSGMC elections
• Registration of electors
• Election of DSGMC members
• Co-option of DSGMC members
• Settlement of election and other disputes.

• From early Vedic age to Mughal era
• Tenantry in colonial era
• Peasants' movement (Krisak Andolon)
• Initial years of post-independence West Bengal
• Constitution of India and journey for land reforms
• The West Bengal Estates Acquisition Act, 1953
• Sub-section (3) of Section 6 of E Act, 1953
• Evasion of land ceiling and efforts to recover ceiling surplus land
• Certain important decisions of high courts and Supreme court in the matter of land reforms
• Family ceiling in West Bengal Land Reforms (Amendment) Act, 1971
• The West Bengal Land Reforms (Amendment) Act 1981 and the West Bengal Land Reforms (Third Amendment) Act 1986 implication thereof
• Bargardar (share cropper)
• Distribution of surplus land : some theoretical aspects
• Achievement in land reforms
• A few important sections of West Bengal Land Reforms Act
• A study of shrimp culture in the coastal belt of the West Bengal (pinch of prawn)
• Revisiting tenancy
• Consolidation of holdings (plots of land)
• Land for industrialisation and urbanisation.

• LIST OF MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS-- LIST OF TABLES--
• 1. Laws, Policies, and Practices in Jharkhand (Nandini Sundar)--
• 2. Law, Custom, and Adivasi Identity: Politics of Land Rights in Chotanagpur (Carol Upadhya)--
• 3. Conflicts and Contradictions: Land Laws in the Santal Parganas (Nitya Rao)--
• 4. Alienation and Restoration of Tribal Land in Jharkhand: Current Issues and Possible Strategies (Ramesh Sharan)--
• 5. Forest Law, Ideology and Practice (Sudha Vasan)--
• 6. Water Law and the Poor: Emerging Issues and Concerns (Videh Upadhyay)--
• 7. Mining and Development: The Paradox (Ajitha Susan George)--
• 8. Framing the Political Imagination: Custom, Democracy, and Citizenship (Nandini Sundar)--
• Appendix 1: Laws Related to Land Rights and Rights to Resources in Jharkhand-- Bibliography-- Notes on Contributors.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This volume discusses the ways in which natural resources are conceptualized in the law as individual property, common property, or available for commercial exploitation. Focusing primarily on issues specific to the state of Jharkhand, it raises wider questions about colonization and globalization, the difference between law and practice, customary and written laws, and interpretation based issues in rights over natural resources. Jharkhand provides an ideal location for the discussion of these issues, as it has a large tribal population, and is increasingly becoming a space where traditional/ tribal rights are in conflict with modern/ state and development based rights. Chapters 1-3 examine different aspects of land rights - the struggle to acquire land, keep it, get it restored, and cultivate it. Chapter 4 looks at the counterfeit legal methods used to grab land. Chapters 5-8 discuss laws and policies related to forests, water and mining, both conceptually and practically.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780198062066 20160604