Indian Constitutional Law, 9th Edition by M P Jain | 2025

Indian Constitutional Law, 9th Edition by M P Jain | 2025

M.P. Jain’s Indian Constitutional Law is a landmark and widely respected work on the Indian Constitution. Now in its ninth edition, the book presents the vast and complex field of constitutional law in an organized, accessible, and comprehensive format. This edition examines both the early applications of the Constitution and its contemporary interpretations. It also incorporates recent jurisprudence, highlighting emerging themes such as disability rights, intersectionality, indirect discrimination, fiscal federalism, transformative constitutionalism, and constitutional morality. The treatise remains an essential resource for judges, lawyers, students, academics, policymakers, journalists, civil servants, political leaders and those engaged in social movements.

Key Features of Indian Constitutional Law, 9th Edition:

• Extensively updated with commentary on recent constitutional amendments and landmark decisions of the Supreme Court and High Courts

• Offers analysis of major doctrines, including transformative constitutionalism, constitutional morality, populist constitutionalism, constitutional silence, unenumerated rights, basic structure, and the concept of an accommodative society

• Provides detailed discussion on privacy, abortion rights, the right to be forgotten, the criminalization of triple talaq, decolonization of criminal law, Centre–State relations, indirect discrimination, intersectionality, reasonable accommodation, proportionality, and more

• Engages critically with recent Supreme Court rulings on issues such as electoral bonds, sub-classification within SC/ST groups, changes to Article 370, parliamentary privileges, same-sex marriage, appointment of election commissioners, state taxation powers, royalty and tax matters, and cultural and educational rights under Articles 29–30

• Includes reflective commentary on current scholarship in Indian public law and comparative constitutional law

About The Author:

Professor M. P. Jain (1923–2004), a gold medallist from the University of Delhi and a J.S.D. graduate from Yale Law School, USA, had an academic career spanning nearly fifty years. He taught at leading institutions including Banaras Hindu University and the University of Delhi, as well as universities in Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia. He authored several influential works, most notably Indian Constitutional Law, Principles of Administrative Law, Outlines of Indian Legal History, and the Administrative Law volume of Halsbury’s Laws of India.