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Reading Upendra Baxi as a guide to the study Indian constitutionalism: a comment

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This short comment is an attempt to zero in on the prodigious work of Professor Upendra Baxi, to locate him as a scholar of the material and contextual constitution. Having done so, it attempts to illustrate the power of the material constitution through my work and interests in Indian constitutional practice. Broadly, it plots a rough and idiosyncratic outline of the imprint of Baxi’s work on the study of Indian constitutionalism.

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  1. [1997] 3 S.C.R. 1010.

  2. Upendra Baxi, Courage, Craft, And Contention: The Indian Supreme Court In The Eighties (1st ed. 1985); Upendra Baxi, Indian Supreme Court And Politics (1980).

  3. Upendra Baxi, Inconvenient Forum And Convenient Catastrophe: The Bhopal Case (1986); Upendra Baxi & Amita Dhanda, Valiant Victims And Lethal Litigation: The Bhopal Case (1990).

  4. Upendra Baxi, The Crisis Of The Indian Legal System (1982).

  5. See, e.g., Upendra Baxi, The (Im)possibility of Constitutional Justice: Seismographic Notes on Indian Constitutionalism, in India’s Living Constitution: Ideas, Practices, Controversies 31-63 (Zoya Hasan et. al. eds., 2002) [Hereinafter referred as "Baxi 2002"]; Upendra Baxi, Outline of a 'Theory of Practice' of Indian Constitutionalism, in Politics And Ethics Of The Indian Constitution 92-118 (Rajeev Bhargava ed., 2008); Upendra Baxi, Constitutionalism as a Site of State Formative Practices, 21 Cardozo L. Rev. 1183 (1999).

  6. For a far more elaborate account of the material constitution see Marco Goldoni & Michael Wilkinson, The Material Constitution, 81 Modern L. Rev. 567–597 (2018).

  7. See Baxi 2002, supra note 5.

  8. Id.

  9. MANU/SC/0136/1954.

  10. Id.

  11. M.H. Qureshi v. State of Bihar, AIR 1958 SC 731.

  12. Ismail Faruqui v. UOI, (1994) 6 SCC 360.

  13. Tilkayat Shri Govindlalji Maharaj v. State of Rajastan, AIR 1963 SC 1638.

  14. Jagdishwaranand v. Police Commissioner, Calcutta, AIR 1984 SC 51.

  15. S.P. Mittal v. Union of India, AIR 1983 SC 1.

  16. Nikhil Soni v. Union of India, 2015 Cri LJ 4951.

  17. See also Partha Chatterjee, Secularism and Tolerance, in Secularism And Its Critics 345-79 (Rajeev Bhargava ed., 1999).

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John, M. Reading Upendra Baxi as a guide to the study Indian constitutionalism: a comment. Jindal Global Law Review 9, 327–333 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41020-018-0073-3

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