Anundoram Barooah Law Lectures Seventh Series - Preamble - The Spirit and Backbone of the Constitution of India

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Description
No reading of any Constitution can be complete without reading it from the beginning to the end. While the end may expand, or alter, the point of commencement can never change. It is the Preamble wherefrom the Constitution commences. Hence, the significance of the Preamble. It is no exaggeration to say that the Preamble to the Constitution of India is its spirit and backbone. The Preamble pervades through and inspires all the provisions of the Constitution. It is also the quintessence of the Constitution. Assembly it has enabled the Constitution to stand erect — neither bending nor breaking. Hundreds of judicial pronouncements made by stalwarts testify to the Constitution of India having stood like a rock facing the splash and floods of stormy waters; the waters have flown by but the Constitution and its Preamble  have not swayed away.
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Contents
I.     Introduction
II.    Preamble
    (a) Text of the Preamble
    (b) Three Parts of the Preamble
    (c) Crafting of the Preamble
    (d) What was not included in the Preamble
    (e) Amendment in the Preamble
    (f)  Constitutional Validity of forty-Second Amendment
          Amendments in the Preamble put in issue   
    (g) Criticism of the Preamble and its Amendment
    (h) Preamble — when it came into force
III.    Prologue to the Preamble —
        The Objectives Resolution
IV.    Preamble, if a part of the  Constitution
V.     Role of the Preamble
VI.    Interpretational value of the Preamble
    (a) Preamble as interpreter of the  Constitution
    (b) Preamble as an aid to interpretation of other statutes
    (c) International documents / treaties as aid to interpretation of the Preamble
VII.   Words and phrases in the Preamble
VIII.  Preamble — Source of basic structure doctrine
IX.    Preamble for judiciary and judges
X.     Echo of the Preamble elsewhere
XI.    Epilogue   
    Schedule A
    Schedule B
    Appendix
Subject Index
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Author Details
R. C. Lahoti
Born on Nov. 1, 1940. Joined the Bar in district Guna in 1960 and enrolled as an Advocate in 1962. In April 1977, recruited directly from the Bar to the State Higher Judicial Service and was appointed as a District and Sessions Judge. After functioning as a District and Sessions Judge for a year, he resigned in May 1978 and reverted to the Bar for practice mainly in the High Court. Appointed Additional Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on May 3, 1988 and made permanent Judge on Aug. 4, 1989. Transferred to the Delhi High Court on Feb. 7, 1994. Appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India on Dec. 9, 1998.
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