The Indian Constitution and Social Revolution: Right to Property since Independence: 16 (SAGE Series in Modern Indian History) - Hardcover

It is not very common to find a scholar who combines the skills of a historian and the craft of a lawyer. The book is an example of this combination, making for a fascinating read on the evolution of the Indian Constitution...We owe it to Ananth for bringing together juridical science and history, as it ought to be.

[This book] provides a valuable understanding of the development of the right to property and will be of relevance to historians, lawyers and others interested in the intersection of this right with constitutional guarantees.

This book is a timely work recording the evolution of the right to property since India gained her Independence.

[The Book] is a fine product of thorough research done by the author. It is highly informative and greatly insightful, it not only helps the readers to understand the relationship between right to property and the socialist agenda of the Indian Constitution but also examines the changing pattern of relationships between the political establishment and the judiciary in India.

This book highlights the evolution of India’s Constitution into a tool for social revolution, tracing the various stages through which the law on the Right to Property and its relationship with the idea of socialism—as laid out in Parts III and IV of the Constitution—have evolved.

It underlines that the road to social revolution has been marked by a process where attempts to give effect to the idea of justice—social, economic, and political—as laid down in the Preamble have achieved a measure of success. If the Constitution, including the Preamble, is to be viewed as a contract that the people of India had entered into with the political leadership of the times and the judiciary being the arbitrator to ensure justice, it may be held that the scheme has worked. This book traces this history by placing the judicial and legislative measures in the larger context of the political discourse.