The Tragedy of the Commons or the Commoner's Tragedy? Toward Understanding Ecological Crisis in India

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/774
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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Goldman, Michael
Conference:	Designing Sustainability on the Commons, the First Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property
Location:	Duke University, Durham, NC
Conf. Date:	September 27-30, 1990
Date:	1990
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/774
Sector:	Water Resource & Irrigation Land Tenure & Use
Region:	Middle East & South Asia
Subject(s):	ecology common pool resources water resources tragedy of the commons IASC
Abstract:	"This paper traces the historical role of the state in the transformation of common property resources in India, presupposing the commons as hotly contested terrain within colonial and post-colonial history and historiography. The paper analyzes Indian legal history and development policy, using specific examples from Rajastan's tenancy, land reform, and wasteland policies. The empirical evidence from the author's field research in Rajasthan reveals exploitative relations of capital interests with land and labor of the poorer village communities, as facilitated by state policy. Throughout, the article evaluates the role of the World Bank: it also challenges the 'tragedy of the commons' literature and policy implications, while integrating new theories of socialist ecology, uneven development, and the commons."

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