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Acknowledgements | |
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Foreword | |
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Introduction | |
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The Heritage | |
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Building a Castle, But not in the Air: The Making of the Constitution | |
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A Brief Outline of the Constitution | |
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Gopalan, Preventive Detention, and Habeas Corpus | |
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Crossroads, Champakam Dorairajan and First Amendment | |
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The Early Struggles and Peace at Last: Land Reforms, Golaknath, Kesavananda, and Articles 31-B and 31-C | |
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The Terms of the Armistice: Basic Features of the Constitution | |
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Democracy Denuded: The Aftermath of Kesavananda, Emergency, and Superession of Judges | |
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All this and Heaven too: Directive Principles of State Policy | |
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Smoothening the Creases: Equality before Law | |
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Ladders to Climb and Bridges to Cross: Reservations, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Backward Classes | |
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Reentry of Eve in the Garden of Eden: Women and Women's Rights | |
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The Garden of Fruits and Flowers: Right to Life | |
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Each for All and All for Each: Socialism | |
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'May your Religion be the Welfare of Humanity': Secularism | |
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Minorities and Minority Institutions | |
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Labour Law | |
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To Speak or Not to Speak: Freedom of Expression | |
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The Sword of Damocles: Contempt of Court | |
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The State, its Instrumentalities and Agencies | |
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Each for All, All for Each: Federalism, the Union, and the States | |
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To be Heard or Not to be Heard: Natural Justice and the Supreme Court | |
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The Taming of the Shrew: Administrative Law | |
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Whither has the Magic of the Flowers and Fruits Gone?: Environmental Law | |
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Expanding the Judicial Universe: Judicial Activism | |
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The Garden is Open to the Public: Public Interest Litigation | |
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Choosing the Ruler: Elections | |
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A Contribution and Not an Exaction: Taxation | |
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The Invasions and the Defences: Crime and Criminal Law | |
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Conscience Keepers of the Law: Judges and Courts | |
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Conclusion | |
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Case Index | |
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Subject Index | |