Title: The Productive Fuzziness of Land Documents: The State and Processes of Accumulation in Urban Villages of Delhi
Published on: May 23, 2019
Published in: Contributions to India Sociology
This article revolves around the fuzzy nature of land titles within and around the ‘Lal Dora’ (literally, ‘red thread’) ringing the urban villages of Delhi to understand how property ownership gets mediated through documents. Through a close look at three kinds of documents — land records, a particular notification over construction in the Lal Dora region and the General Power of Attorney, it pries open how these documents govern property relations today.