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When land reform was a paradigm shift, then what type of land reforms would you recommend to make India a more equitable society?

  • UPSC 2026
  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

The first generation of land reform was a paradigm shift because it redefined property in land as a social trust rather than an absolute right: the State entered the agrarian structure, dissolved the rentier layer, and used the First Amendment (1951) and the Ninth Schedule to shield the project from the courts. Truncated, it leaves…

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