INDIA ACT IV 1882

Contents:

What is land and why is it important? ...

Why is land such a burning issue in Myanmar? ...

How is land related to debates about development?...

Is there a human right to land?...

What steps are people in Myanmar taking to
express and assert their human right to land?

ACT NO. 1 OF 1961 THE 17th MARCH 1961

INDIA ACT XII, 1880.....

INDIA ACT VI 1923
1st April 1923

[REGULATION III, 1889.] (13th July, 1889.)

Burma's dramatic turn-around from 'axis of evil' to western darling in the past year has been imagined as Asia's 'final frontier' for global finance institutions, markets and capital. Burma's agrarian landscape is home to three-fourths of the country's total population which is now being constructed as a potential prime investment sink for domestic and international agribusiness.

ACT No. XXXI OF I960

INDIA ACT XVIII 1885. 16th October, 1885....."WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for cases in which mines or minerals are situate under land
which it is desired to acquire under the Land Acquisition Act; It is hereby enacted as follows:-...

Act No. XVII OF 1958 The 24th March 1958

India Act XIII, 1898 4th November, 1898...."...5. The President of the Union may, for administrative including revenue purposes,-
(q) divide Upper Burma into divisions and each of these divisions into districts, and vary the
limits of those divisions and districts, and
(b) divide each of those districts into sub-divisions, each of those sub-divisions into townships
and each of those townships into circles, and vary the limits of these sub-divisions, townships
and circles.