PAPER – V
INDIAN LEGAL AND
CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY
(Optional Paper)
(Paper Code : K-2005)
This course
is intended to introduce students to the Legal and Constitutional History of
India (1600-1950). Emphasis will be laid on the following :
I. Legal History :
The Early
Charters and the Administration of Justice by the East India Company, the
Mayor's Courts; Judicial Reforms of Warren Hastings and the Advent of Adalat
System; the Regulating Act, Pits India Act, and the Act of Settlement; Judicial
Reforms of Cornwallis and Lord William Bentick; the High Courts; Privy Council;
the Supreme Court of India; the Law Commissions and Codification, Development
of Criminal Law, Law of Contract and Law of Evidence in India; Personal Laws of
Hindu and Mohammedans.
II. Constitutional History :
Position of
Native States and the development of the Doctrine of Paramountcy, Development
of Legislative Institutions, Indian Council Act 1861, Government of India Act
1909, Government of India Act 1919, Government of India Act 1935, Independence
Act, 1947, The story of Framing of Indian Constitution.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
Jain, M.P., Outlines of
Indian Legal History
Kulshreshtha, V.D., Landmarks
in Indian Legal and Constitutional History
Pranjpe, N.V., Legal and
Constitutional History of India
Puri, S.K., Legal and
Constitutional History of India
Ramajois, M., Legal and
Constitutional History of India, Volume-I,II
Shilwant, S.S., Turning
Points in Indian Legal and Constitutional History
Singh, M.P.,
Outlines of Indian Legal and Constitutional History
