Oxford handbook of the Indian Constitution edited by Sujit Choudhry, Madhav Khosla, and Pratap Bhanu Mehta.

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Locating Indian Constitutionalism / Sujit Choudhry, Madhav Khosla, Pratap Bhanu Mehta -- Citizenship / Niraja Gopal Jayal -- Language / Sujit Choudhry -- Elections / Aditya Sondhi -- Emergency Powers / Rahul Sagar -- Constitutional Amendment / Madhav Khosla -- Separation of Powers / Ruma Pal -- Legislature / M. R. Madhavan -- Legislature / Sidharth Chauhan -- Executive / Shubhankar Dam -- Judicial Architecture and Capacity / Nick Robinson -- Constitutional Antecedents / Rohit De -- Judicial Independence / B. N. Srikrishna -- Jurisdiction / Raeesa Vakil -- The Administrative and Regulatory State / T. V. Somanathan -- Tribunals / Arun Thiruvengadam -- Review of Administrative Action / Prateek Jalan, Ritin Rai -- The Federal Scheme / Mahendra Pal Singh -- Legislative Competence / V. Niranjan -- Inter-State Trade, Commerce, and Intercourse / Arvind Datar -- Inter-State River Water Disputes / Harish Salve -- Fiscal Federalism / Nirvikar Singh -- Indian Constitutionalism / Uday Mehta -- Asymmetric Federalism / Louise Tillin -- Local Government / K. C. Sivaramakrishnan -- Rights: breadth, scope, and applicability / Ananth Padmanabhan -- Horizontal Effect / Stephen Gardbaum -- Writs and Remedies / Gopal Subramanium -- Saving Clauses: the Ninth Schedule and Articles 31A-C / Surya Deva -- Directive Principles of State Policy / Gautam Bhatia -- Public Interest Litigation / Shyam Divan -- The Constitutionalisation of Indian Private Law / Shyamkrishna Balganesh -- Equality: legislative review under Article 14 / Tarunabh Khaitan -- The Indian Founding / Hanna Lerner -- Reservations / Vinay Sitapati -- Gender Equality / Ratna Kapur -- Life and Personal Liberty / Anup Surendranath -- Due Process / Abhinav Chandrachud -- Criminal Law and the Constitution / Aparna Chandra, Mrinal Satish -- Free Speech and Expression / Lawrence Liang -- Assembly and Association / Menaka Guruswamy -- Movement and Residence / Anirudh Burman -- Profession, Occupation, Trade, or Business / Vikramaditya Khanna -- Secularism and Religious Freedom / Ronojoy Sen -- Constitutional Interpretation / Chintan Chandrachud -- Personal Laws / Flavia Agnes -- Minority Educational Institutions / K. Vivek Reddy -- Property / Namita Wahi -- Government Contracts / Umakanth Varottil -- Sovereign Immunity / Neel Maitra -- Public Employment and Service Law / Raju Ramachandran -- The Indian Constitution Seen from Outside / Mark Tushnet -- Law, Politics, and Constitutional Hegemony / Upendra Baxi -- Constitutional Identity / Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn -- Constitutional Change / Shruti Rajagopalan -- International Law and the Constitutional Schema / Lavanya Rajamani.

This book explores the historical commitment to the idea of constitutionalism and how the framers understood India's constitutional project. It begins with an overview of the concept of 'constitutional morality' as it relates to the Indian Constitution, along with the cosmopolitan character of Indian constitutionalism. It then considers some of the tensions that have characterised constitutional law in India, with particular emphasis on some of the sources of these tensions, for instance the debate between centralisation and decentralisation. It also discusses the major axes around which the normative and institutional imagination of the Indian Constitution is articulated and concludes by analysing the character of constitutional development in India and paying attention to the forces that have shaped its evolution.

Specialized.