The Fading Right to Property in India

Abstract

[This paper seeks to analyze the unique position held by property rights in India, and how, by virtue of its recognition in the Constitution of India and its subsequent reproduction in a substantially diluted form, basic tenets of public law and Constitutional interpretation have suffered. While the debate on the right to property has been the basis for much of India's constitutional evolution, particularly with reference to individual freedoms and the limitations on amendment, the right itself has traversed a wide judicial arc, with grim and possibly irreversible consequences.]