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This chapter assesses the interactions between law and politics in India along the porous boundary that separates them. Upendra Baxi is one of a small number of legal scholars to recognize the importance of this topic, and he was one of the first. He addressed it in an important book early in his career, in 1983, 1 and his interest has not waned. In the mid-1990s, he co-edited a book that focused more heavily on politics (and society) than on law. 2 He also published an important paper in 1993 on judicial discourse which offered insights into interactions between politics and law, and so on. 3 It is thus appropriate to consider the interplay of politics and law here, in a collection of essays in Baxi's honour. Political analysts have also paid too little heed to this topic. Pratap Bhanu Mehta cited Baxi's 1983 book as a rare exception to a depressing general trend: 'Most studies of Indian politics pay almost no attention to courts.' 4 Nor do they tell us much about the broader interplay of politics and law, which is the subject of this chapter. Mehta's comment came in 2006. Eleven years later, little had changed. A study of the Supreme Court blamed both legal scholars and political

Author

Khurshid, Salman; Luthra, Sidharth; Malik, Lokendra; Bedi, Shruti

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781108883474