declared that land purchases by the British East India Company from the Princely states were valid even without a Crown patent authorizing the purchase. In a 1924 appeal from India, the Privy Council issued an opinion that largely corresponded to the Continuity Doctrine: Vaje Singji Jorava Ssingji v Secretary of State for India. This line of reasoning was adopted by the Supreme Court of India in a line of decisions, originating with the proprietary claims of the former rulers of the Princely states, as well as their heirs and assigns. Adivasi land rights litigation has yielded little result. Most Adivasi live in state-owned forests. Notes References Further reading Comparative Bartlett, Richard H., and Jill Milroy (eds.). 1999. Native Title Claims in Canada and Australia: Delgamuukw and Miriuwung Gajerrong. Richard A. Epstein, Property Rights Claims of Indigenous Populations: The View from the Common Law, 31 U. Toledo L. Rev. 1 (1999). Hazelhurst, Kayleen M. (ed.). 1995. Legal Pluralism and the Colonial Legacy. Hocking, Barbara Ann. 2005. Unfinished constitutional business?: rethinking indigenous self-determination. IWGIA. 1993. "...Never Drink from the Same Cup": Proceedings of the conference on indigenous peoples in Africa. IWGIA. 2007. The Indigenous World. Liversage, Vincent. 1945. Land Tenure in the Colonies. pp. 2–18, 45—53 Meek, C.K. 1946. Land Law and Custom in the Colonies. McHugh, PG. 2011. Aboriginal Title: The Modern Jurisprudence of Tribal Land Rights (Oxford: OUP, 2011) McNeil, Kent. 1989. Common Law Aboriginal Title. Oxford University Press. McNeil, Kent. 2001. Emerging Justice? essays on indigenous rights in Canada and Australia. Robertson, Lindsay G. 2005. Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands. Oxford University Press. . Slattery, Brian. 1983. Ancestral lands, alien laws: judicial perspectives on aboriginal title. Young, Simon. 2008. Trouble with tradition: native title and cultural change. Sydney: Federation Press. Blake A. Watson, The Impact of the American Doctrine of Discovery on Native Land Rights in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, 34 507 (2011). Australia Bartlett, R. 2004 (2d ed.). Native Title in Australia. Brockwell, Sally. 1979. Aborigines and the law: a bibliography. Law Reform Commission. 1986. The recognition of Aboriginal customary laws. Report No. 31. Parliamentary Paper No. 136/1986. McCorquodale, John. 1987. Aborigines and the law: a digest. Reynolds, Henry. M.A. Stephenson & Suri Ratnapala (eds.). 1993. Native Title and Pastoral Leases, in Mabo: A Judicial Revolution—The Aboriginal Land Rights Decision and Its Impact on Australian Law. Strelein, L.