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Book Description
The Alladi Memorial Trust was founded in 1983 by Alladi Kuppuswami, tocommemorate the birth centenary of his father, the late Dr AlladiKrishnaswamy. The objects of the Trust include holding lectures andseminars on issues relating to the Indian Constitution, which areintended to apprise the general public of the various debatesconcerning constitutional law. The essays in this volume comprise thetexts of fourteen such lectures - including the Alladi Memoriallectures and the Umamaheswaram Memorial lectures - and some seminarpapers.
The essays included here, dating back to 1989, are by eminent jurists,academicians, and social/ human rights activists. They includedistinguished members of the Bench like Justice M. Hidayatullah,Justice S. Ranganathan, Justice V.R. Krishna lyer, Justice P.C. Rao,Justice B.R Jeevan Reddy and Justice M. N. Rao; leading members of theBar like K.G. Kannabiran (also a well-known human rights activist),P.P. Rao and Prashant Bhushan; eminent academicians like Prof. R.V.R.Chandrasekhara Rao, Prof. K. Seshadri and Prof. Javeed Alam; andcommitted activist-academicians like Prof. Kalpana Kannabiran and DrAsghar Ali Engineer.
The topics covered by these essays are very relevant in today'scontext. They include basic features of, and the use and abuse of theConstitution; the judicial process; uniform civil code; right toconversion; secularism and minority rights; formation of the Hindureligious consciousness; failure of laws to contain communalism; needfor jurisprudence of women's rights; intellectual property rights; andparliamentary democracy.
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Contents
Contributors
• Some Personal Reminiscences and Some Aspects of Legal Administration -
M. Hidayatullah
• Four Decades of the Indian Constitution - S. Ranganathan
• The Judicial Process and Positive Rights - R.V.R. Chandrasekhara Rao
• A Uniform Civil Code for India: Imperative, Optional, or a Strategic Process toward
National Unity? - V.R. Krishna Iyer
• Use and Abuse of the Indian Constitution - P. Chandrasekhara Rao
• Parliamentary Democracy - K. Seshadri
• Intellectual Property Rights: TRIPS and Its Impact on India - B.P. Jeevan Reddy
• Basic Features of the Constitution - P.P. Rao
• Granting the Freedom to Misuse Freedom: Secularism and Minority Rights -
K.G. Kannabiran
• Freedom of Religion and the Right to Conversion - M.N. Rao
• Rights of Minorities in India : With Special Reference to Muslim – Asghar Ali Engineer
• The Ned for Jurisprudence of Women’s Rights in India – Kalpana Kannabiran
• The Formation of Hindu Religions Consciousness in Modern India – Javeed Alam
• The Laws to Contain Communalism : Why have they failed? – Prashant Bhushan
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