- Author(s): Gopal Sankaranarayanan
- Publisher: Eastern Book Company
- Edition: 16 Ed 2024
- ISBN 13 9788119868940
- Approx. Pages 572 + contents
- Format Hardbound
- Approx. Product Size 18 x 12 cms
- Delivery Time Normally 7-9 working days
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Description
As I put pen to paper, it is difficult to ignore the swirling debates
that envelope the national narrative today. The law is front and centre,
with the bail denial of a 23-year old in our commercial capital, the
horrors of a murderous convoy in our largest district, the arrest of
cricket fans in our most populous State and the use of malware to hack
our citizenry jostling for the headlines. What these four incidents have
in common (apart from the obvious role of our political class) is the
most important right enshrined in our Constitution Article 21. It is
difficult to conceive how a provision that has been enriched and
enlarged to encompass the most cherished values of the Indian people has
been ignored with such impunity over so many years. For those who
encounter the Constitution for the first time, it appears to contain a
set of ideals, some Utopian, some esoteric, and all seemingly divorced
from any practical application. Unfortunately, the manner in which this
branch of law (it is actually the very trunk, far from being a branch!)
is taught in institutions across the country makes the entire discipline
seem too dense even for the most earnest of students. It is this
fogginess that is then carried with them into the practice, where even
the most rudimentary elements of due process are abandoned.
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Contents
About India
Making of the Indian Constitution
The Constitution of India
Part I The Union and its Territory
Part II Citizenship
Part III Fundamental Rights
Part IV Directive Principles of State Policy
Part IV-A Fundamental Duties
Part V The Union
Part VI The States
Part VII The States in Part B of the First Schedule
Part VIII The Union Territories
Part IX The Panchayats
Part IX-A The Municipalities
Part IX-B The Co-operative Societies
Part X The Scheduled and Tribal Areas
Part XI Relations Between the Union and the States
Part XII Finance, Property, Contracts and Suits
Part XIII Trade, Commerce and Intercourse within the Territory of India
Part XIV Services under the Union and the States
Part XIV-A Tribunals
Part XV Elections
Part XVI Special Provisions Relating to Certain Classes
Part XVII Official Language
Part XVIII Emergency Provisions
Part XIX Miscellaneous
Part XX Amendment of the Constitution
Part XXI Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions
Part XXII Short Title, Commencement, Authoritative Text in Hindi and Repeals
Schedules
Appendices
I. Comparative Chart of the Indian & US Constitution
II. Table of Amendments and Provisions Altered/Inserted/Repealed
III. Amending Legislations to the Constitution
IV. Chief Justices of India
V. List of Larger Bench Decisions
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Author Details
Gopal Sankararnarayanan, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India