Constitutional Law
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Cases & Materials on Constitutional Law of India
995.00The book Cases and Materials on Constitutional Law of India Fons Juris of Foundational Fundamentals presents an in-depth study about the foundational fundamentals of textual Constitution of India. Foundational fundamentals are fons juris of our Constitution. Our Constitution was devised on the basis of “The Constitution of India — Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”, which promotes the understanding of constitutional framework. With diffidence, it brings about familiarity with the key terms, expressions, clauses, cases and chronologies in constitutional law and to articulate informed opinion over important and controversial constitutional issues, particularly relating to Basic Structure, Expounding Philosophy of the textual Constitution, Concepts of the Constitution, Constitutional Law and Constitutionalism, Preamble, Citizenship, Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles of State Policy and Fundamental Duties. With reticent, an attempt has been made to present, for the first time in the study of constitutional law, insights into jural postulates in context and content of correlatives and opposites in relation to fundamental rights, directive principles of State policy and Fundamental Duties. Constitution of India is the soul of our country INDIA that is BHARAT — the Union of States, a pictogram of mutually reciprocal and friendly to each other states; an emblem of indestructible union of destructible units. It is suprema lexof India. It is a symbol of unity in diversity. It is a treasure of national heritage. It is the conscience of our country. It is the sacred gospel of our nation containing the aspirations of WE THE PEOPLE OF INDIA aimed at strengthening the unity, integrity and harmony of the Nation. It is not a seasonal document; it is a permanent document that binds the posterity for ages. In this context, the constitutional textual words, terms, and expressions do not change, but its interpretation undergoes a change having one meaning in one context and somewhat different meaning in another context.
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Comparative Constitutional Law
850.00Dr Durga Das Basu’s Comparative Constitutional Law has its beginning from the law lectures in B.H.U. A work of good research has been immensely improved by the author. Lucid, readable and of great value to students of politics, law and to the legal profession. The topics have been detailed in a manner that makes it most intelligible and fluent. The first edition incorporated precedents till 1983. This revised edition has brought in precedents till the early part of 2014. The basic chapters remaining the same, substantial value has been added keeping in view the latest developments on the subject over these years.
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Comparative Constitutional Law
636.00Dr Durga Das Basu’s Comparative Constitutional Law has its beginning from the law lectures in B.H.U. A work of good research has been immensely improved by the author. Lucid, readable and of great value to students of politics, law and to the legal profession. The topics have been detailed in a manner that makes it most intelligible and fluent. The first edition incorporated precedents till 1983. This revised edition has brought in precedents till the early part of 2014. The basic chapters remaining the same, substantial value has been added keeping in view the latest developments on the subject over these years.
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Introduction to the Constitution of India (Kannada Translation)
350.00Introduction to the Constitution of India is a book for everybody in India and abroad who wants to know anything about the Constitution of India during its first sixty seven years. It meets the requirements of various Universities of India for the LL.B., LL.M., B.A. and M.A. (Political Science) and Competitive examinations held by the Union and State Public Service Commissions. The book is indispensable for politicians, journalists, statesmen and administrative authorities and is also prescribed in several Universities even for undergraduate courses in Civics. It incorporates all amendments to the Constitution upto 100th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2015 and contains materials, figures and charts not included in any publication so far on the subject. It contains elaborate comments on separatism in Punjab, Assam & elsewhere. Some of the salient features of the book are: • While the Author’s Commentary on the Constitution of India and the Shorter Constitution annotate the Constitution Article by Article, primarily from the legal standpoint, the present work offers systematic exposition of the constitutional document in the form of a narrative, properly arranged under logical chapters and topical headings, • It will continue to supply the long felt need for an introductory study on the Constitution for the general readers, politicians as well as students and candidates for the Public Service Commission and other competitive examinations. • It traces the constitutional history of India since the Government of India Act, 1935; analyzes the provisions of the present Constitution and explains the interrelation between its diverse contents. • It gives an account of the working of each of the provisions of the Constitution during its first decade with reference to statutes and decisions wherever necessary, together with a critical estimate of its trends, in a concluding chapter. • The analytical Table of Contents, Marginal Notes, Index and the Graphic Tables at the end of the book will serve as admirable aids. • The three Legislative lists have been printed side by side for the convenience of reference. • The change made by the different Constitutional Amendment Acts upto the 100th Amendment and the reorganisation of the States made by various statutes may be seen at a glance. • Without going into excessive detail, the footnotes and references have been printed at the end of each Chapter so that the advanced student and the researcher may profit by pursuing those references, after his study of the contents of each chapter. • The status of Jammu and Kashmir and the provisions of its State Constitution have been appropriately dealt with.
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Outlines of Indian Legal and Constitutional History
425.00From the earliest times of their existence all societies have had law. This is a self-evident truth which requires no proof. No society, whether human or animal, can be conceived of without any norms for its organization and operation. While the biologists are engaged in understanding the laws of animal world wocial scientists, especially lawyers, have recorded from the very early times the laws that have regulated ro guided human activity within the society. Among them a class of legal thinkers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has been categorized as historical jurists. From the historical evolution of law they have tried to propound certain universal propositions. For example, Friedrich Carl von Savigny of Germany from his study of Roman and German laws drew the conclusion that laws are not made but found which evolve with a society like its language and the best source of law is custom and not legislation. Similarly Sir Henry Sumner Maine, the Law Member of the Governor-General’s Council in India from 1862 to 1869 is known for his several legal propositions of general application laid down among others in his Ancient Law (1861). He drew special attention to the legal developments in India, albeit his conclusions about law in India vis-a-vis the West were not encouraging to us. Besides this category of legal thinkers legal historians around the world have traced the evolution of law in different societies from the beginning of those societies or as far in the past as the history of those societies goes. Definitely the laws in the beginning of the societies were as simple and rudimentary as were the societies. Laws have grown with the growth of the societies. This evolutionary process establishes evident relationship between law and society that as the society changes laws also change even though law has also been an instrument of social change.
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Outlines of Indian Legal and Constitutional History
316.00From the earliest times of their existence all societies have had law. This is a self-evident truth which requires no proof. No society, whether human or animal, can be conceived of without any norms for its organization and operation. While the biologists are engaged in understanding the laws of animal world wocial scientists, especially lawyers, have recorded from the very early times the laws that have regulated ro guided human activity within the society. Among them a class of legal thinkers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has been categorized as historical jurists. From the historical evolution of law they have tried to propound certain universal propositions. For example, Friedrich Carl von Savigny of Germany from his study of Roman and German laws drew the conclusion that laws are not made but found which evolve with a society like its language and the best source of law is custom and not legislation. Similarly Sir Henry Sumner Maine, the Law Member of the Governor-General’s Council in India from 1862 to 1869 is known for his several legal propositions of general application laid down among others in his Ancient Law (1861). He drew special attention to the legal developments in India, albeit his conclusions about law in India vis-a-vis the West were not encouraging to us. Besides this category of legal thinkers legal historians around the world have traced the evolution of law in different societies from the beginning of those societies or as far in the past as the history of those societies goes. Definitely the laws in the beginning of the societies were as simple and rudimentary as were the societies. Laws have grown with the growth of the societies. This evolutionary process establishes evident relationship between law and society that as the society changes laws also change even though law has also been an instrument of social change.
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Parliament – Powers, Functions & Privileges
1,395.00Parliament: Powers, Functions and Privileges is focused on the Indian polity with comparative insights of practices and experiences of various liberal democracies. India, having given itself a basic governing document in the form of ‘the Constitution,’ is an apt model of ‘nation state’ to be imitated and followed. The Parliament of India, having its origin from the Constitution of India, is the supreme legislative body which reflects the representative democracy elected by an adult suffrage in a free and fair election in tune with the constitutional principles. The literature on Parliament, its working and functioning is in abundance, however, there was a vacuity in the existing pool of literatures (treatises, books, compendium, cases and materials etc. on the working and functioning of the Parliament) which covers all the three important aspects i.e. powers, functions and privileges. This book is the modest attempt to fill the existing vacuum in the world of academia. The Parliament of India is a magnificent manifestation of the democratic ethos and it is the repository of the constituent power which occupies central position in the Indian democratic polity. The voluminous work begins with a narrative on historical evolution of parliamentary institutions in England and India; powers and functions of Parliament, elections of its constituent nd members. The principles of Anti-defection law inserted through the Constitution (52 Amendment) Act, 1985, has been dealt separately in a chapter titled ‘Defection as Disqualification’, in addition to the disqualifications prescribed in the Constitution. Apart from this, the book makes an in-depth analysis of the origin, purposes and constitutional practices of Parliamentary Privileges outlining the height of tension between the office of the Speaker, Lok Sabha and the Supreme Court in Cash for Query case(2007). The chapter on ‘Privileges and Media’ is a special highlight of the book which also examines the role of media vis-a-vis parliamentary privileges, issues of sting operations and its limitations etc. The book also contains a separate chapter on Raja Ram Pal case (Cash for Query case). The book aims to cater to the need and demand of understanding the Parliament as an Institution of national importance and bedrock of the Indian Polity. It would be useful for the members of the Bar, Bench, Policy makers, Research Institutions, Libraries and Law Students. Besides this, it seeks to attract the readers from various segments of the society so as to understand the powers, functions and privileges of the Parliament.
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Textbook on The Constitution of India
695.00CONTENTS THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA INTRODUCTION PREAMBLE PART I THE UNION AND ITS TERRITORY PART II CITIZENSHIP PART III FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS PART IV DIRECTIVE PRINCIPLES OF STATE POLICY PART IVA FUNDAMENTAL DUTIES PART V THE UNION CHAPTER 1: THE EXECUTIVE CHAPTER II: PARLIAMENT CHAPTER III: LEGISLATIVE POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT CHAPTER IV: THE UNION JUDICIARY CHAPTER V: COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR-GENERAL OF INDIA PART VI THE STATES CHAPTER I: GENERAL CHAPTER II: THE EXECUTIVE CHAPTER III: THE STATE LEGISLATURE CHAPTER IV: LEGISLATIVE POWER OF THE GOVERNOR CHAPTER V: THE HIGH COURTS IN THE STATES CHAPTER VI: SUBORDINATE COURTS PART VII THE STATES IN PART B OF THE FIRST SCHEDULE PART VIII THE UNION TERRITORIES PART IX THE PANCHAYATS PART IXA THE MUNICIPALITIES PART IXB THE CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES PART X THE SCHEDULED AND TRIBAL AREAS PART XI RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNION AND THE STATES CHAPTER 1: LEGISLATIVE RELATIONS CHAPTER II: ADMINISTRATIVE RELATIONS PART XII FINANCE, PROPERTY, CONTRACTS AND SUITS CHAPTER I: FINANCE CHAPTER II: BORROWING CHAPTER III: PROPERTY, CONTRACTS, RIGHTS, LIABILITIES, OBLIGATIONS AND SUITS CHAPTER IV: RIGHT TO PROPERTY PART XIII TRADE COMMERCE AND INTERCOURSE WITHIN THE TERRITORY OF INDIA PART XIV SERVICES UNDER THE UNION AND THE STATES CHAPTER I: SERVICES CHAPTER II: PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONS PART XIV A TRIBUNALS PART XV ELECTIONS PART XVI SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO CERTAIN CLASSES PART XVII OFFICIAL LANGUAGE CHAPTER I: LANGUAGE OF THE UNION CHAPTER II: REGIONAL LANGUAGES CHAPTER III: LANGUAGE OF THE SUPREME COURT, HIGH COURTS, ETC. CHAPTER IV: SPECIAL DIRECTIVES 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 TABLE OF CASES
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Workbook on Constitution of India
1,095.00This book is the first of its kind, which presents the great work of Dr. DD Basu in the form of a workbook, supplementing his classic work with additional information. This book is for everyone preparing for competitive exams held by the Union and State Public Service Commissions, presenting elaborate insight into the Indian Constitution. It further incorporates all the latest amendments to the Constitution including materials & figures not included in any publication so far on the subject. It also contains elaborate comments on separatism in Punjab, Assam & elsewhere.The workbook provides additional information to the fine work of the Author, in the form of MCQ’s, history, explanations, info links, definitions, critical information, important case laws, etc. While the Author’s commentary on the Constitution of India and the shorter Constitution annotates the Constitution Article by Article, primarily from the legal standpoint, the present workbook further elaborates in depth the critical information’s on such subjects. This work book will supply the long felt need for an extensive study on the Constitution for the general readers, politicians as well as students and candidates preparing for the Public Service Commission and other competitive examinations. It traces the Constitutional history of India since the Government of India Act, 1935; analyses the provisions of the present Constitution and explains the inter-relation between its diverse contents. The status of Jammu and Kashmir and the provisions of its State Constitution have been fully dealt with. It gives an account of the working of each of the provisions of the Constitution during its first decade with reference to statutes and decisions wherever necessary, together with the critical estimate of its trends. This book is an innovative initiative which aims at adding comprehensive element and creative concepts, making this workbook extensive in its coverage. This book aims at covering the over-all developments in the constitution with latest updates.