Monopolies & Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969

This edition of the Monopolies & Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969 is a definitive resource for understanding India’s historical approach to monopoly control and unfair trade practices. It reproduces the full statutory text along with consolidated amendments, explanatory notes, and curated annotations that highlight landmark interpretations and enforcement mechanisms under the Act. Readers will find commentary on definitions (monopoly, restrictive trade practice), procedural powers of the regulatory body, penalties, and procedural safeguards for affected parties. The book contextualizes the MRTP framework against the evolution of competition law in India, making it useful both as a historical reference and a comparative tool for those studying the transition to newer competition regimes. Practical aids such as a chronology of amendments, a subject index, and references to seminal cases render this volume suitable for classroom study, litigation research, regulatory compliance work, and policy analysis. Compact, well-structured, and legally precise, the book bridges bare-act utility with practitioner-focused insight.