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Constitution & Law for Development Practice

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Every reading this course assigns, module by module, with the best free copy we could find.

38 readings15 free to read3 on request20 books

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Module 1. Module 1: Making of the Indian Constitution

  1. Constituent Assembly of India (1949). The Preamble to the Constitution of India.Read it free

Module 2. Module 2: Fundamental Rights (Part III)

  1. Constitution of India (1950), Article 14: Equality before law. Government of India.Read it free

Module 3. Module 3: Directive Principles & Fundamental Duties

  1. Constitution of India (1950), Article 37: Application of the principles contained in this Part. Government of India.Read it free
  2. Baxi, U. (2008). The Future of Human Rights, 3rd edition. Oxford University Press. (First edition 2002.)Publisher pageBook
  3. Khosla, M. (2020). India's Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy. Harvard University Press.Publisher pageBook
  4. Austin, G. (1999). Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience. Oxford University Press.Publisher pageBook

Module 4. Module 4: Federal Structure & Centre-State Relations

  1. Constitution of India (1950), Article 1: Name and territory of the Union. Government of India.Read it free
  2. Rao, M. G. and Singh, N. (2005). The Political Economy of Federalism in India. Oxford University Press.Publisher pageBook
  3. Tillin, L. (2013). Remapping India: New States and Their Political Origins. Hurst and Oxford University Press.Publisher pageBook
  4. Choudhry, S., Khosla, M. and Mehta, P. B. (eds.) (2016). The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution. Oxford University Press.Publisher pageBook

Module 5. Module 5: Judiciary, PIL & Access to Justice

  1. Constitution of India (1950), Article 32: Remedies for enforcement of rights conferred by this Part. Government of India.Read it free
  2. Baxi, U. (1985). Taking Suffering Seriously: Social Action Litigation in the Supreme Court of India. Third World Legal Studies, 4, 107-132.Read it free
  3. Gadbois, G. H., Jr. (2011). Judges of the Supreme Court of India: 1950-1989. Oxford University Press.Publisher pageBook

Module 6. Module 6: Article 21 - Life, Liberty & Expanding Rights

  1. Constitution of India (1950), Article 21: Protection of life and personal liberty. Government of India.Read it free
  2. Bhatia, G. (2019). The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts. HarperCollins India.Publisher pageBook
  3. Baxi, U. (2006). The Future of Human Rights, 2nd edition. Oxford University Press. (Linked: 3rd edition, 2008.)Publisher pageBook

Module 7. Module 7: Reservations, Social Justice & Affirmative Action

  1. Constitution of India (1950), Article 16(4): Reservation in public employment. Government of India.Read it free
  2. Deshpande, A. (2011). The Grammar of Caste: Economic Discrimination in Contemporary India. Oxford University Press.Publisher pageBook
  3. Agnes, F. (1999). Law and Gender Inequality: The Politics of Women's Rights in India. Oxford University Press.Publisher pageBook

Module 8. Module 8: Rights-Based Legislation

  1. Constitution of India (2002), Article 21A: Right to education (inserted by the Constitution (Eighty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2002). Government of India.Read it free
  2. Drèze, J. and Sen, A. (2013). An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions. Princeton University Press.Publisher pageBook
  3. Agarwal, B. (1994). A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia. Cambridge University Press.Publisher pageBook

Module 9. Module 9: Criminal Justice, Policing & Human Rights

  1. Constitution of India (1950), Article 22: Protection against arrest and detention in certain cases. Government of India.Read it free
  2. Sundar, N. (2011). The rule of law and citizenship in central India: post-colonial dilemmas. Citizenship Studies, 15(3-4), 419-432.Publisher pageSubscription

Module 10. Module 10: Environmental Law & Climate Justice

  1. Constitution of India (1976), Article 48A: Protection and improvement of environment and safeguarding of forests and wild life (inserted by the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976). Government of India.Read it free
  2. Divan, S. and Rosencranz, A. (2001). Environmental Law and Policy in India: Cases, Materials and Statutes, 2nd edition. Oxford University Press. (Linked: 3rd edition, 2022.)Publisher pageBook
  3. Gill, G. N. (2017). Environmental Justice in India: The National Green Tribunal. Routledge.Publisher pageBook
  4. Rosencranz, A. and Lele, S. (2008). Supreme Court and India's Forests. Economic and Political Weekly, 43(5), 11-14.Publisher pageSubscription

Module 11. Module 11: Digital Rights, Data Protection & Surveillance

  1. United Nations General Assembly (1948). Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 12. Resolution 217 A (III).Read it free
  2. Arun, C. (2020). AI and the Global South: Designing for Other Worlds. In Dubber, M. D., Pasquale, F. and Das, S. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI. Oxford University Press.Publisher pageSubscription
  3. Roberts, A. (2006). Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age. Cambridge University Press.Publisher pageBook
  4. Baviskar, A. (2010). Winning the Right to Information in India: Is Knowledge Power? In Gaventa, J. and McGee, R. (eds.), Citizen Action and National Policy Reform: Making Change Happen. Zed Books.Read it free

Module 12. Module 12: Comparative Constitutional Systems in South Asia

  1. Government of Nepal (2015). Constitution of Nepal, Article 16(1). Constitute Project translation.Read it free
  2. Choudhry, S. (ed.) (2008). Constitutional Design for Divided Societies: Integration or Accommodation? Oxford University Press.Publisher pageBook
  3. Chimni, B. S. (2017). International Law and World Order: A Critique of Contemporary Approaches, 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press.Publisher pageBook
  4. Rajagopal, B. (2003). International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance. Cambridge University Press.Publisher pageBook

Module 13. Module 13: Practitioner Capstone - Constitutional Advocacy for Development

  1. United Nations General Assembly (1948). Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 8. Resolution 217 A (III).Read it free
  2. Baxi, U. (2006). The Future of Human Rights, 2nd edition. Oxford University Press. (Linked: 3rd edition, 2008.)Publisher pageBook

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