Rights, Power and Institutions

Description

Rights, Power and Institutions: Select Indian Supreme Court Judgments from 2020 to 2025 brings together eight of the most consequential decisions delivered by the Court in the first half of the decade. Moving from internet shutdowns and hate speech to reservations, foreign funding, electoral finance, and judicial reform, the book offers a sustained engagement with how the Court has navigated a period of acute political and institutional change. Each chapter is structured around a single judgment, beginning with the factual and procedural background and proceeding through the arguments, doctrinal reasoning, and operative directions. The analysis is attentive to constitutional text, precedent, and comparative materials, but also to institutional role and long-term implications. Rather than treating these decisions as isolated landmarks, the book reads them as points along a trajectory in which the Court redefines its relationship with Parliament, the executive, and the citizen. Written in an accessible yet rigorous style, the book is intended for students, researchers, and practitioners of public law, as well as for judges and policy actors seeking a synoptic view of recent constitutional jurisprudence. It can be read linearly, as a narrative of doctrinal development in the 2020–2025 period, or consulted selectively for a structured account of particular cases. By foregrounding both the possibilities and limits of judicial review in a transforming republic, the book invites readers to think with, and sometimes against, the Court as it confronts the constitutional questions of the present moment.