The Legal Right to Housing in India
This book on constructing a legal right to housing in India seeks to achieve three ends: first, examine the costs incurred in translating a moral right into the language of the law; second, unpack the ways in which existing law and policy impact the realisation of the right to housing and situate any attempt to legally guarantee the right within this context; and finally, begin thinking through the many complexities that will arise should the right be articulated within the law. A comprehensive chronology of central housing law and policy provides the descriptive background for this analytical text, while also acting as a rich introductory resource on the subject. Asserting a need as a right and then seeking legislative recognition for the right is a formula often used in rights struggles. This book takes a critical look at this process, in order to facilitate informed engagement with the law.
- Provides the sole text to discuss the legal recognition of the right to housing in India
- Includes a comprehensive chronological table on central interventions in relation to housing in India
Product details
January 2020Paperback
9781108720274
250 pages
228 × 154 × 19 mm
0.3kg
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Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Cases
- List of Statutes
- Introduction
- 1. The act of definition
- 2. The Indian State in response to housing claims
- 3. Mapping the legal environment
- Conclusion
- Annexure 1. Central housing law and policy
- Annexure 2. National campaign for housing rights
- Annexure 3. The national right to homestead bill, 2013
- References
- Index.