Preface;
Introduction;
Chapter 1: Transcending the Tharuvaad: M.K. Nambyar's Formative Years;
Chapter 2: Touch of Fate: From the Mofussil to the Madras High Court;
Chapter 3: Taking the High Road: From Kanara to Kilpauk;
Chapter 4: The First Constitutional Case: A.K. Gopalan;
Chapter 5: The Aftermath of A.K. Gopalan and Life in the Madras High Court;
Chapter 6: Piercing the Dark Shadows of Preventive Detention: S. Krishnan v. The State of Madras;
Chapter 7: The Right to Property and Parliamentary Powers to Abridge the Fundamental Rights-The First, Fourth and Seventeenth Constitutional Amendments;
Chapter 8: I.C. Golak Nath v. The State of Punjab: Laying the Foundations of the Basic Structure;
Chapter 9: The March of the Law: Nambyar, the Constitutional 'Colossus';
Epilogue;
Acknowledgements.