The Indian Constitution provides a history of the Indian Constituent Assembly, of how and why the members of the Assembly wrote their constitution as they did. This new edition of Austin's classic work has a preface bringing it up to date with contemporary developments in constitutional law.
"There is something majestic in the scale of the work that is appropriate to the subject-matter. The style, if relaxed and leisurely, is admirably clear." - The Economist
"remains an indispensibe guide to the deliberation of the Constituent Assembly" - Neeraja Jayal, Biblio, May-June 2000