Land Acquisition and Compensation in India

Sattwick Dey Biswas is Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Policy (National Law School of India University), India.

• 1. Mysteries of valuation.- 2. Value: The epistemology.- 3. Value: The marginal revolution.- 4. Value: The contemporary ideas.- 5. The empirical context: Cases, legal context and theory of science.- 6. Empirical evidence: Relationship, attributes and plural values of land.- 7. Empirical evidence: Negotiations, Smith’s value and limits of monetary price.- 8. Empirical evidence: Future and ideal values of land.- 9. Conclusions.