Alladi Memorial Lectures

Contents: Foreword. Contributors. 1. Some personal reminiscences and some aspects of legal administration/M. Hidayatullah. 2. Four decades of the Indian constitution/S. Ranganathan. 3. The Judicial Process and Positive Rights/R.V.R. Chandrasekhara Rao. 4. A Uniform Civil Code for India: imperative, optional, or a strategic process toward national unity?/V.R. Krishna Iyer. 5. Use and abuse of the Indian constitution/P. Chandrasekhara Rao. 6. Parliamentary democracy/K. Seshadri. 7. Intellectual Property Rights: TRIPS and its impact on India/B.P. Jeevan Reddy. 8. Basic features of the constitution/P.P. Rao. 9. Granting the freedom misuse freedom: secularism and minority rights/K.G. Kannabiran. 10. Freedom of religion and the right to conversion/M.N. Rao. 11. Rights of minorities in India: with special reference to Muslims/Asghar Ali Engineer. 12. The need for jurisprudence of Women’s Rights in India/Kalpana Kannabiran. 13. The Formation of Hindu religious consciousness in modern India/Javeed Alam. 14. The laws to contain communalism: Why have they failed?/Prashant Bhushan.

“The Alladi Memorial Trust was founded in 1983 by Alladi Kuppuswami, to commemorate the birth centenary of his father, the late Dr. Alladi Krishnawamy. The objects of the Trust include holding lectures and seminars on issues relating to the Indian Constitution, which are intended to apprise the general public of the various debates concerning constitutional law. The essays in this volume comprise the texts of fourteen such lectures -- including the Alladi Memorial lectures and the Umamaheswaram Memorial lectures -- and some seminar papers. The essays included here, dating back to 1989, are by eminent jurists, academicians, and social/human rights activists.” (jacket)