Introduction The Tenth Schedule of the Indian Constitution, introduced by the Fifty-Second Constitutional Amendment in 1985, was a response to a specific pathology of India’s post-Emergency political landscape: elected legislators
Introduction On 10 January 2020, the Supreme Court of India delivered a judgment of considerable doctrinal ambition. In Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India, a three-judge bench held that internet
Introduction India’s fiscal federal architecture rests on an elaborate system of constitutional provisions, Finance Commission awards, and executive grants that together determine how resources flow from the Centre to the
Introduction When a five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India delivered its judgment in Supriyo v. Union of India in October 2023, it declined to recognise a constitutional
Introduction The architecture of Article 22 of the Indian Constitution was designed with deliberate care. The framers, many of whom had endured colonial detention under emergency regulations, understood that the
Introduction Every election cycle in India produces a fresh iteration of one of the most contested questions at the intersection of constitutional law, political economy, and democratic theory: whether it
Introduction When the Supreme Court of India unanimously held in K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India (2017) that privacy is a fundamental right under the Constitution, it opened a constitutional
Introduction On 11 May 2022, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India delivered an order in S.G. Vombatkere v. Union of India that, for a brief moment, appeared
Introduction The Indian Constitution allocates to the Governor a set of formal powers over state legislation that, if exercised without restraint, can paralyse the legislative functioning of an elected state
Introduction Few constitutional questions in independent India have generated as much sustained controversy as the method by which judges are appointed to the higher judiciary. The Supreme Court’s 2015 decision
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