Indian Legal and Constitutional History

Indian Legal and Constitutional History

This book contains:-

Part I - Legal History of India

• Chapter I - Administration of Justice in the Settlements of The East India Company Before 1726
• Chapter II - Mayor's Courts
• Chapter III - Grant of Diwani and Judicial Reforms of Warren Hastings
• Chapter IV - Regulating Act, 1773, Charter of 1774
• Chapter V - Recorder's Courts and Supreme Courts at Madras and Bombay
• Chapter VI - Pitt's India Act, 1784
• Chapter VII - Judicial Reforms of Lord Cornwallis
• Chapter VIII - Reforms of Sir John Shore, Lord Wellesly, Lord Cornwallis
• Chapter IX - Establishment and Development of High Courts
• Chapter X - Indian Appeals to the Privy Council
• Chapter XI - Charter Act of 1833 and Law Commissions
• Chapter XII - Regulation Law
• Chapter XIII - Introduction of English Law in India
• Chapter XIV - Development of Criminal Law in India
• Chapter XV - Personal Laws of Hindus and Mohammedans during British Period
• Chapter XVI - Racial Discrimination in Judicial Administration
• Chapter XVII - Development of the Legal Profession in India
• Chapter XVIII - Prerogative Writs in India
• Chapter XIX - Law Reporting in India

Part II - Indian Constitutional History

• Chapter I - Important Constitutional Developments during 1660-1858
• Chapter II - Important Constitutional Developments during 1858-1919
• Chapter III - Important Constitutional Developments during 1919-1935
• Chapter IV - Government of India Act, 1935
• Chapter V - Important Constitutional Developments from 1935 to 1947
• Chapter VI - The Indian Independence Act, 1947
• Chapter VII - Salient Features of the Constitution of India, 1950

Appendix

Law and Courts in India during Hindu Period and Muslim Period