Critical Analysis of Evacuee Property Laws and their Legal Administration in India

Abstract Evacuee Properties and their administration was one of the most fought over issue between India and Pakistan on diplomatic and legal lines. The aim on either side was their useful appropriation as can be reflected from the statements made by each party at the New Delhi Conferences held to reach a consensus. The problem was solved by unilateral legal actions taken by either nation but the result was hardships for the evacuees and subsequently the displaced persons whose fates got intertwined with the evacuee properties. These accounts of hardships have been well documented by numerous sociologists and historians all throughout. However, what this line of research misses out is a legal analysis of these evacuee property laws.