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Tag: Indian Constitutional and Legal History

One World

On March 10, 2013 By Aparna Chandra In Uncategorized

Guest Post by Kalyani Ramnath   Manu Bhagavan’s ‘The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World’ provides a compelling account of India’s engagement with international institutions from the 1940s to the 1960s. The title …

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Oral History of the Constitution

On January 10, 2013 By Rohit De In Uncategorized

Journalist, blogger and writer Sidin Vadukut has a series of podcasts on the oral history of the Indian constitution, beginning with the reforms of 1858. It’s informative, fun and accessible. Constitutions have for too long been the preserve …

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Land Disputes, Gender and Legal History

On August 7, 2011 By Rohit De In Uncategorized

I just wanted to flag a number of new articles that raise interesting questions that are directly relevant to our discussions on Law and Other Things. Nivedita Menon, in the recent issue of the EPW, …

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Legal History Moment: Colonial Law and CIA Agents

On March 13, 2011 By Rohit De In Uncategorized

Elizabeth Kolsky, whose pathbreaking book we reviewed here has written an opinion piece in the DAWN, highlighting how the Raymond Davis case follows a pattern established in colonial India where white men in South Asia …

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Alibi’s of Empire

On October 25, 2010 By Rohit De In Uncategorized

Karuna Mantena‘s first book, Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism joins a growing conversation around the British codification of law in India. Mantena, a political theorist by training, is interesting …

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The Rule of Law in Colonial India

On October 22, 2010 By Rohit De In Uncategorized

Elizabeth Kolsky‘s, Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law recently published by Cambridge University Press is a significant intervention into understanding how criminal law comes to operate in India. Kolsky …

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Bar Exams, Reinventing the Wheel

On May 17, 2010 By Rohit De In Uncategorized

While researching at the British Library this week, I stumbled across a Memorandum on the administration of justice in India by Sir Patrick Spens, Chief Justice of the Federal Court of India. Spens noted, I …

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Legal History Moment: The Case of the Diligent Diplomat

On October 14, 2009 By Rohit De In Uncategorized

C.B Muthamma passed away today. She was the first woman to have joined the Indian civil service in 1949. She became a part of Indian legal history when she challenged the Foreign Service Rules which …

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Constituting Jinnah- I

On September 11, 2009 By Rohit De In Uncategorized

The 61st anniversary of Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s death anniversary would be a good opportunity to revisit the certain aspects of the controversy set off in Jaswant Singh’s book. As Srinivasan Venkataraman points out in his …

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Relations between Dr. Ambedkar and the Congress — The Constituent Assembly and Beyond

On May 4, 2009 By Vikram Raghavan In Uncategorized

Yesterday, at an election rally in New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati accused the Congress party of mistreating Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and ensuring his defeat in the first general elections. A similar allegation was …

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