Tag: Indian Supreme Court
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Clarifying Gubernatorial Powers in the Legislative Process: The Indian Supreme Court’s Judgment in State of Tamil Nadu v. Governor of Tamil Nadu
–John Simte, lawyer and legal researcher based in New Delhi On 08 April 2025, the Indian Supreme Court delivered its judgment in State of Tamil Nadu v. Governor of Tamil Nadu, clarifying the constitutional limits of the Governor’s role under Articles 200 and 201 of the Constitution.
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The Indian Constitution through the Lens of Power – VI: Rights
—Gautam Bhatia, Advocate, New Delhi, and independent legal scholar [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2023 columnists, see here.] The previous five posts in this series have examined the Indian Constitution as a terrain of contestation around five axes of power: federalism, legislative/executive relations, pluralism, guarantor institutions, and…
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The Indian Constitution through the Lens of Power – V: The People
—Gautam Bhatia, Advocate, New Delhi, and independent legal scholar [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2023 columnists, see here.] The previous four posts in this series have examined the Indian Constitution as a terrain of contestation around three axes of power: federalism, legislative/executive relations, pluralism, and guarantor institutions.
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The Indian Constitution through the Lens of Power – IV: Guarantor Institutions
—Gautam Bhatia, Advocate, New Delhi, and independent legal scholar [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2023 columnists, see here.] The previous three posts in this series have examined the Indian Constitution as a terrain of contestation around three axes of power: federalism, legislative/executive relations, and pluralism.
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The Indian Constitution through the Lens of Power – III: Asymmetric Federalism
—Gautam Bhatia, Advocate, New Delhi and independent legal scholar [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2023 columnists, see here.] In my previous two columns, I examined the Indian Constitution as a terrain of contestation across two axes of power: the centre-state [“federal”] axis, and the legislature-executive [“parliamentary”] axis.
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The Indian Constitution through the Lens of Power – II: The Legislature and the Executive
—Gautam Bhatia, Advocate, New Delhi and independent legal scholar [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2023 columnists, see here.] In the opening post of this series, I proposed an approach to the Indian Constitution that views it as a terrain of contestation between different – and opposed –…
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The Indian Constitution through the Lens of Power – I: The Union and the States
—Gautam Bhatia, Advocate, New Delhi and independent legal scholar [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2023 columnists, see here.] In his book, Latin American Constitutionalism, Roberto Gargarella calls upon scholars of constitutional law to focus upon the “engine room” of the Constitution: i.e.,
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Hijab Ban Case: Constitutional Questions before the Indian Supreme Court
–Ashish Goel, Advocate, Supreme Court of India Earlier this year, a three-judge Bench of the Karnataka High Court (HC) decided that female Muslim students have no fundamental right to wear a headscarf inside government schools. Given the manner in which the Petitioners put forth their arguments and given the dominance that the ‘essential religious practices’…
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Indian Anti-Conversion Laws Have No Place in a Constitutional Democracy
—Kruthika R, LLM Student in Human Rights, Central European University, Vienna Three federal states in India have passed laws that criminalise religious conversion for marriage without a prior state permission. And mandates a cumbersome procedure to obtain permission from the state to convert to another religion for marriage.