Outlines of Indian Legal and Constitutional History

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Description
It is a matter of some satisfaction that this book has survived and appeared after year even though I could not get an opportunity to revise it since long, of its several shortcomings I generally felt embarrassed when quite a few or other former students of law in different walks of life fondly introduced '• es to me by telling me that they read this book with benefit as law if. On every such occasion, besides admitting several shortcomings in the I always resolved to revise it at the earliest so as to at least remove from
it the patient errors. But somehow I could never succeed in creating conditions required  for the realization of my resolve. The conditions could not be created because I was also entertaining a grand design of legal and constitutional history of India which I have tried to outline in the introduction to the present edition. Conversion of such design into concrete shape demanded sustained research for a considerably long time. Unfortunately I did not get the opportunity for such a research in spite of my sincere desire and efforts in that direction. Therefore even this delayed revision has not gone that far as I would have liked it to go.  Primarily it removes the patent errors and updates information wherever appropriate. As the students are well satisfied with the information the book contains, it very well serves their purpose. I hope it will serve it better now than what it has been doing so far.
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Contents
1.    The East India Company and its early Settlements
2.    Establishment of Crown’s Courts in India: The Mayor’s Court
3.    Beginning of Adalat System: Warren Hastings
4.    Supreme Courts at Calcutta, Madras and Bombay
5.    Adalat System under Lord Cornwallis
6.    Adalat System after Cornwallis
7.    Judicial System beyond Bengal
8.    High Courts and the Privy Council
9.    The Law and its Codification
10.  Development of Personal Laws During British Period
11.  Racial Discrimination in the Judicial Administration
12.  Modern Judiciary
13.  Legal Profession
Part II
14. Constitutional History of India
Part III
Elements of Indian Legal System
15.  Concepts and Sources of Law
16.  The Rule of Law in India
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Author Details
Professor Mahendra P.Singh : Former Professor, Head & Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi