This article is educational in nature that could be used for multiple purpose, such as spreading awareness, articulating women’s rights over private and public land, drawing lessons from work experience and reflect, could be use for consultation and advocacy material and also to reflect upon the given issue related to land for strategic intervention. It covers mainly four issues: first, understanding ‘common land’ as a category and its sub-categories as part of common property resources (CPR) and especially with reference to use of land; the second section is about land system in India as continuation of colonialism and need to revisit land reform; the third section focuses on articulating women’s perspective for land rights and which theoretical frameworks could be applied. The fourth section is in a way a compilation of several rounds of consultations and debates with bureaucrats, panchayati raj elected members and talati (village revenue secretary cum administrative personnel), social activists and community leaders, and social taken for ensuring women’s rights over common land.

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