Land reforms programmes led to some constitutional amendments. Comment. (Answer in 150 words)

- Land reforms programmes led to some constitutional amendments. Comment. (Answer in 150 words)
Introduction
Zamindari abolition collided with the fundamental right to property, and the resulting contest with the courts drove more constitutional amendment than any other subject.

Body

1. The First Amendment, 1951: After the Patna High Court struck down Bihar's land reform law, Articles 31A, 31B and the Ninth Schedule immunised agrarian legislation from Articles 14, 19 and 31.
2. Compensation placed beyond review: The Fourth Amendment of 1955 made compensation non-justiciable; the Seventeenth of 1964 extended 31A to ryotwari land and added forty-four statutes to the Schedule.
3. The confrontation over amending power: Golaknath in 1967 barred abridgement of fundamental rights; the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Amendments of 1971 answered it; Kesavananda Bharati in 1973 upheld Article 31C while laying down basic structure.
4. Property finally demoted: The Forty-fourth Amendment of 1978 removed property from Part III, leaving Article 300A; I. R. Coelho in 2007 reopened post-1973 Ninth Schedule entries to review.

Conclusion
These amendments cleared a constitutional path for redistribution. That ceiling laws still transferred barely two per cent of operated area shows the obstacle was administrative.