The Politics of Land Law

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Who benefits from land law, and why have repeated promises of reform failed to resolve rural poverty? S. M. Masum Billah examines Bangladesh’s major land laws through the relationship between legal institutions, political power and the position of peasants. The book follows this relationship across colonial rule and the periods after partition and independence. Billah considers the abolition of zamindari and the opportunities for redistribution associated with 1947 and 1971. He argues that political influence, weaknesses in legal structures and the assumptions underlying legislation have limited reform. Poverty, in this analysis, is connected to the way law distributes access and advantage rather than treated as a separate economic condition. The study brings legal history into conversation with debates over development and inequality. Its proposal for redistribution gives readers a concrete argument to assess when considering what a land system designed around the needs of poorer people might require.

বইয়ের বিস্তারিত

সংস্করণ

1st Published, 2021

ভাষা

ইংরেজি

প্রকাশক

The University Press Limited

প্রকাশের বছর

2021

পৃষ্ঠা

৩২৪

ISBN-13

9789845062893