Constitution of India

social movements in India since the 1970s have actively used the Courts-especially the Supreme Court-as a part of their struggles. This has been possible because of the higher Courts’ activism, especially under the guidance and action of Public Interest Litigation. Through the instrument of Public Interest Litigation, the Court liberated itself from traditional constraints in the legal system so as to reach out ‘to the weaker sections of Indian humanity. The Supreme Court of India has adopted a forward-looking

in propelling exhaustive key preparing and have yearning centers to backing the amount of young people who proceed to optional school. Indian powers understand that India needs to enhance occupation training its children. For instance, Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh perceiving that reformers have far to go in India. Says Singh: "Investigations of accomplishment levels of our school young people

While it is true that certain forms of democracy evolved in ancient Athens and Rome, modern governments differ significantly from these ancient societies. In some cases, the very words put forth by the philosophers were written directly into the constitutions of countries practicing these new ideas. Without the contributions of John Locke and other enlightenment philosophers, democracy and government as we know it today would not exist. The shape of modern government in America and Europe today comes

TRIBALS? Tribal people are defined as those who "have followed ways of life for many generations that are largely self-sufficient, and are clearly different from the mainstream and dominant society". Constitution of India has not defined the word ‘tribe’ but Article 366(25) of the Constitution of India refers to the Scheduled Tribes as the tribes or tribal communities or the parts of or groups within such tribes or tribal communities which the Indian President may specify by public notification under

Should India have a Uniform Civil Code? Introduction Should India have a Uniform Civil Code? This is a question that causes agitation and furious debate everytime it is raised. It is a debate that has been raging for years now. Even the makers of our Constitution thought about it when they wrote it because the Article 44 our Constitution clearly states that :' The state shall endeavour to secure for the citizens a Uniform Civil Code throughout the territory of India'. The article is part of the

Nepal is located in the Himalayan Mountains of South Asia. India and China are surrounding its borders with China that is on its northern border while India is the neighbor to the south, east, and west. Nepal is home to 31.5 million people with Kathmandu being its largest city with 1.4 million people. In modern Nepal, it is a multiethnic, multicultural, multi religious and multilingual country. However, Hindu is the predominant religion with 90 percent. (Youngblood, 2015) Nepali is the primary

In what ways and with what success did Nehru deal with the economic and social problems facing India? Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian National Congress and later India’s first prime minister, led the Congress Party to victory in India’s first three general elections. Nehru was born in 1889, educated in England and then returned back to India. In the 1920´s he travelled around India and was alarmed by the Indian people suffering from poverty and oppression. Inspired by his travelling around

Learning from American and Mexican experiences: A case for Jury Trials in India By: Scott A. McMillan, Ravishankar K. Mor “Trial by jury is the lamp which shows that freedom lives” Lord Devlin Jury trials in India had come to an end unceremoniously; the immediate cause for abolition

Introduction The controversy of judicial review which at extreme points, is called judicial activism, is a concept new to India. Judicial review can be defined as the judiciary, in the exercise of its own independence, checking and cross checking the working of the other organs of the government, while trying to uphold the ideal of ‘the rule of law’. Judicial activism more reformist in character is often confused with judicial review. According to Black’s Law Dictionary, judicial activism

INTRODUCTION Tribal people are defined as those who "have followed ways of life for many generations that are largely self-sufficient, and are clearly different from the mainstream and dominant society". Constitution of India has not defined the word ‘tribe’ but Article 366(25) of the Constitution of India refers to the Scheduled Tribes as the tribes or tribal communities or the parts of or groups within such tribes or tribal communities which the Indian President may specify by public notification under