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This chapter discusses the empirical evidence collected from the case study areas in India via thematic qualitative analysis of data. It presents the characteristic of the land that is meaningful or not meaningful at all to the participants. It describes the relationship between the land and the people. This also considers how different life experience contributes to individuals’ ideas on values of land. Thus, it takes to the empirical understanding of plural values of land.
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The term graded equality was used by B. R. Ambedkar and later popularised by D. D. Kosambi (Pellissery 2014).
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During a dinner with few small time real estate investors in Dortmund, I asked them about the determinants of the value of land. They said fertility first in most of the time. To be honest, I expected their answer to be location since they are real estate investors.
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According to Indian numbering system, more specifically in the Hindi or the north Indian vocabulary “Lakh” equal to one hundred thousand (100,000). This is sometimes written as Lac or Lacs. In India, numerically it is written as 1,00,000 by following Indian number system.
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Accessed on 14. 05. 2018 retrieved from https://in.reuters.com/article/rape-panchayat-west-bengallove/west-bengal-woman-says-gang-raped-on-orders-of-panchayat-idINDEEA0M0AA20140123
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Section 420 of the India Penal Code deals with cheating and dishonesty while delivering a property. This number is popularly used in India to indicate the aimless ‘bad boys’ of the society.
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Financial Times’s report titled, “The Age of Anthropocene: Masters of the Earth” (2014), summarises some of the debates on this issue. The fact that it was published in the Financial Times (FT) makes this report more interesting, considering that the business world is often considered to be conspiring against climate protection. Contrary to this (un)popular belief, “the masters of the universe” (as the FT sees the market managers), have somewhat tried to understand what the age of Anthropocene means.
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This tendency to utilise one’s own social network as a more reliable source of information and successful negotiation is neither primitive nor unorganised. Haythornthwaite’s (1996) paper on social network analysis is one of the most important works to understand and appreciate the importance of immediate social networks (not restricted to digital social networking media). The role of immediate individuals as sources of local opportunities is also discussed by Scott (2000).
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Dey Biswas, S. (2020). Empirical Evidence: Relationship, Attributes, and Plural Values of Land. In: Land Acquisition and Compensation in India. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29481-6_6
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