The Indian Penal Code (2 Volume Set)

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Description
The history of the Indian Penal Code prevailing in British India commences with the year 1833, the year followed the Reform Bill, a period which was full of law reform in general and criminal law in particular. Indirectly the Indian Penal Code owed its origin to Bentham the most well-known jurist of the day on the subject of law reform. James Mill the favourite disciple of Bentham had written the history of British India under the influence of Bentham's ideas. The Code reflects the thinking of these two jurists.
In 1933 Lord Macaulay moved in the House of Commons to codify the whole criminal law in India and bring about uniformity. Lord Macaulay while speaking on the Bill in the British Parliament said;
"I believe that no country ever stood so much in need of a Code as India, and I also believe that there never was a country in which the want might be so easily supplied, Our principle is simply this—uniformity when you can have it; diversity when you must have it; but in all cases certainty." Lord Macaulay also told the House of Commons that Mohmmedans were governed by the Koran and in the Bombay Presidency Hindus were governed by the institutes of Manu. Pandits and Kajis were consulted on point of law and in certain respects the decisions of the courts were arbitrary. Thus the year 1833 was a landmark in the history of codification in India. The Charter Act of 1833 introduced a single legislature for the whole of British India. The legislature was empowered to legislate for Hindus and Mohammedans alike as also for Presidency towns and Moffusil areas.
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Contents
VOLUME 1
CHAPTER I        INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER II        GENERAL EXPLANATIONS
CHAPTER III       OF PUNISHMENTS
CHAPTER IV       GENERAL EXCEPTIONS
CHAPTER V        OF ABETMENT
CHAPTER V A     CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY
CHAPTER VI        OF OFFENCES AGAINST THE STATE
CHAPTER VII       OF OFFENCES RELATING TO THE ARMY, NAVY AND AIR FORCE
CHAPTER VIII      OF OFFENCES AGAINST THE PUBLIC TRANQUILLITY
CHAPTER IX        OF OFFENCES BY OR RELATING TO PUBLIC SERVANTS
CHAPTER IXA      OF OFFENCES RELATING TO ELECTIONS
CHAPTER X         OF CONTEMPTS OF THE LAWFUL AUTHORITY OF PUBLIC SERVANTS
CHAPTER XI        OF FALSE EVIDENCE AND OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE 
CHAPTER XII       OF OFFENCES RELATING TO COM AND GOVERNMENT STAMPS
CHAPTER XIII      OF OFFENCES RELATING TO WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
CHAPTER XIV      OF OFFENCES AFFECTING THE PUBLIC HEALTH,
                                SAFETY, CONVENIENCE, DECENCY AND MORALS
CHAPTER XV       OF OFFENCES RELATING TO RELIGION .
CHAPTER XVI      OF OFFENCES AFFECTING THE HUMAN BODY (TILL SECTION 350
VOLUME 2
CHAPTER XVI      OF OFFENCES AFFECTING THE HUMAN BODY (FROM SECTION 351)
CHAPTER XVII     OF OFFENCES AGAINST PROPERTY
CHAPTER XVIII    OF OFFENCES RELATING TO DOCUMENTS AND TO [***] PROPERTY MARKS
CHAPTER XIX      OF THE CRIMINAL BREACH OF CONTRACTS OF SERVICE
CHAPTER XX       OF OFFENCES RELATING TO MARRIAGE
CHAPTER XXA     OF CRUELTY BY HUSBAND OR -U RELATIVES OF HUSBAND
CHAPTERXXI       OF DEFAMATION
CHAPTER XXII     OF CRIMINAL INTIMIDATION, INSULT AND ANNOYANCE
CHAPTER XXIII    OF ATTEMPTS TO COMMIT OFFENCES
APPENDICES   
SUBJECT INDEX
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