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As our readers might be aware, we have recently started the New Scholarship Section on our Blog, to promote new academic literature in the field of public law. As an added dimension to this, we have decided to invite discussants...

[Ed note - In this post Dr. Venkat Iyer reviews the books -The Battle of Belonging by Shashi Tharoor and A New Idea of India by Harsh Gupta ‘Madhusudan’ and Rajeev Mantri] A cynic might be forgiven for believing that...

‘Kapada na latta va khaya bhatta fajitee maay hoti lay mothiKakhet lekaru, haatat jhadna, doi war shenaachi paati,Mahya Bhimana maiy sonyane bharali oti.’ [No clothes to wear, neither food to eat, it was a huge fuzzy,Child in arms, broom in...

In an article published in EPW on July 11th, Alok Prasanna Kumar had argued in favour of having domicile-based reservations in National Law Universities (NLUs). Mr. Kumar argued that the elite resistance to domicile reservation reflects an unfounded fear of...

Ed Note: In this post, the authors argue that the recent Farm Bills are beyond the legislative competence of the union government, and the process of passage of these bills evaded parliamentary procedure. 1. Introduction Article 79 of the Constitution...

A federal government is a system wherein powers are divided between the Centre and the State and both operate independently in their respective jurisdictions.[1] The Constituent Assembly adopted for a federal structure in order to reconcile national unity with regional...

Introduction The recently introduced Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) have garnered widespread public debate on whether these measures are in consonance with the secular ideals of the Indian state. These two measures created serious apprehensions...

Ed Note- We are hosting an international blog symposium on India and Global Decline in Democracies as a part of our New Scholarship initiative. We will be discussing Professor Tarunabh Khaitan’s article, which he introduced here. More information on the symposium can be found here. This post...

Ed Note– We are hosting an international blog symposium on India and Global Decline in Democracies as a part of our New Scholarship initiative. We will be discussing Professor Tarunabh Khaitan’s article, which he introduced here. More information on the symposium can be found here. This post...

When a top Bollywood actor recently said modern Indians have rejected caste and another one opposed identification of caste in the census a few years back, some people legitimately see casteism in their thinking. Isn’t it a way of looking...

Ed Note: (In this conclusion to our blog round-table book discussion, Prof. Jeffrey Redding writes a response to the reviews for A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India. The introduction by Prof. Rohit De is here. which was followed...