Privatisation of Common Property Resources: Lessons from Rural Karnataka

This paper examines the experience of privatising the common property resources (CPRs) over a period of 50-100 years in one village. The two main questions addressed here are: How does the process of privatisation of CPRs take place? Who benefits from such a process? The study of a single village provides the opportunity to understand the dynamics involved over a period of time. The village under study here is Rajapura in Magadi 'taluk' of Bangalore (rural) district in Karnataka.