Contents
Foreword by Upendra Baxi;
Acknowledgements ;
Introduction by Sathya Narayan;
I. VISTAS OF THE CONSTITUTION
1. Ordinance-making Power of the President of India;
2. Supreme Court, Parliament and Constitution ;
3. The Constitutional Aspect: II ;
4. Has the Constitution Obstructed Social Justice? ;
5. Liberalism, Fundamentalism and the Writer: Constitutional Perspectives;
6.The Unfinished Agenda: The Constitution at the Crossroads ;
7. Review of the Constitution: Need to keep an Open Mind;
8. The Indian Constitution: Stability and Change ;
9. Governors' Dismissal: Constitutional Validity and Propriety;
10. People and Law: Towards Legitimation of the Constitution- A Review ;
11. Appointment of Judges: The Issues;
12. Avoidance of Premature Constitutional Questions by the Supreme Court;
13. The Indian Constitution and the Emergency of June;
14. Public Corporations and Government Companies as 'State';
15. 'Citizenship' in India: Some Problems Regarding the Determination of ;
16. Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles of State Policy ;
17. India: From Positivism to Structuralism ;
II. INDIAN CONSTITUTION AND RIGHT TO PROPERTY
18. Right to Private Property: Some Issues ;
19. Right to Property after the 44th Amendment: Reflections on Prof P.K. Tripathi's Observations;
20. Right to Property and Constitutional Amendment ;
III. INDIAN CONSTITUTION AND THE BASIC STRUCTURE DOCTRINE
21. Limitations on Constitutional Amendment: 'Basic Structure' Principle Re-examined;
22. Conflict between Parliament and Judiciary: The Basic Structure Doctrine;
IV. HUMAN RIGHTS
23. Human Rights and Natural Law Thought: From the National Movement to the Constitution-An Indian Experience;
24. Towards an Effective Human Rights Commission;
25. Human Rights in India: The Updated Amnesty International Report;
26. Child and Human Rights;
27. Paradigm Shift of Human Rights Discourse ;
28. Human Rights Education: National Perspective;
29. Development and Human Rights ;
Index;
About the Author ;
About the Editor;
About Indian Law Society.