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  • These Seats Are Reserved

    Caste, Quotas and the Constitution of India

    by Abhinav Chandrachud ...
    Reservation or affirmative action is a hugely controversial policy in India. While constitutionally mandated and with historians, political scientists and social activists convinced of its need, many resist it and consider it as compromising 'merit' and against the principle of equality of opportunity. In These Seats Are Reserved, Abhinav traces the history and making of the reservation policy. ... Read more

    $5.89 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Soli Sorabji: Life And Times

    An Authorized Biography

    by Abhinav Chandrachud ...
    How does a Parsi lawyer, deeply influenced by the principles of Roman Catholicism, fall in love with a Bahai and go on to become the Attorney General of India for a Hindu nationalist BJP government? How does a boy with a broken leg, who studied in a Gujarati medium school and lost his father at the age of nineteen, go on to mount a heroic defense of the Janata government's decision to dissolve ... Read more

    $7.89 CAD

  • An Independent, Colonial Judiciary

    A History of the Bombay High Court during the British Raj, 1862–1947

    by Abhinav Chandrachud ...
    In 2012, the Bombay High Court celebrated the 150th year of its existence. As one of three high courts first set up in colonial India in 1862, it functioned as a court of original and appellate jurisdiction during the British Raj for over 80 years, occupying the topmost rung of the judicial hierarchy in the all-important Bombay Presidency. Yet, remarkably little is known of how the court ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Informal Constitution

    Unwritten Criteria in Selecting Judges for the Supreme Court of India

    by Abhinav Chandrachud ...
    Enacted for historical reasons on 26 January 1950, the Constitution of India provided that the Supreme Court of India, situated in New Delhi, was to have one Chief Justice of India, and not more than seven judges. Today, the Court has 33 judges in addition to the Chief Justice of India. But who are these judges, and where did they come from? Its central thesis is that despite all established ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Supreme Whispers

    Conversations with Judges of the Supreme Court of India 1980-89

    by Abhinav Chandrachud ...
    Based on 114 intriguing interviews with nineteen former chief justices of India and more than sixty-six former judges of the Supreme Court of India, Abhinav Chandrachud opens a window to the life and times of the former judges of India's highest court of law and in the process offers a history that largely remained in oblivion for a long time. ... Read more

    $5.89 CAD

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    These Seats Are Reserved

    Caste, Quotas and the Constitution of India

    by Abhinav Chandrachud ...
    Narrated by Anuj Datta ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 42 min

    Reservation or affirmative action is a hugely controversial policy in India. While constitutionally mandated and with historians, political scientists and social activists convinced of its need, many resist it and consider it as compromising 'merit' and against the principle of equality of opportunity.In These Seats Are Reserved, Abhinav traces the history and making of the reservation policy.How ... Read more

    $23.74 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Soli Sorabji Biography

    Life And Times: An Authorized Biography

    by Abhinav Chandrachud ...
    Narrated by Vivek Bhatia ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 46 min

    The first authorized biography of Soli Sorabjee‘A gripping life story of a Goliath who strode the Indian legal canvass for nearly seventy years.’ – Mukul Rohatgi, former Attorney General of India‘Superbly researched, this book by Abhinav Chandrachud is a must read. ‘ – Madhavi Goradia Divan, Additional Solicitor General in the Supreme Court of IndiaHow does a Parsi lawyer, deeply influenced by the ... Read more

    $22.29 CAD

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