Indian Constitutional Law

In its 60th year of publication, M P Jain’s magnum opus on the Constitution of India has travelled hand-in-hand with the development of constitutional jurisprudence in our country. It has served and has been serving generations of judges, lawyers, scholars, students, and laypersons, too. Its spread across

ages and strata of people bears true testimony to its utility as a dependable commentary on a complex instrument.

Apart from a thorough updation of case law, this new edition remains faithful to the original approach of the author by setting out the principles underlying these decisions wherever possible. This edition also comes with several critiques on various topics like the immunity of personal laws from Article 13, exclusion of decrees of civil courts from the certiorari jurisdiction of the constitutional courts, sovereign immunity, essential religious practices etc. The book also takes note of the rich stream of contemporary jurisprudence areas of disability rights, intersectionality, and indirect discrimination, as well as evolving constitutional principles like transformative constitutionalism and constitutional morality.