Contents

Chapters

1. Some Important dates in the Indian Legal and Constitutional History

Unit – I

2. Establishment of the East India Company
   (Early Developments)  

• Charter of 1600
• Charter of 1661  
• British Settlement at Surat  
• British Settlement at Madras  
• British Settlement at Bombay
• Mayor’s Court of 1726  
• Adalat System  
• Warren Hasting’s Judicial Plan of 1772  
• Warren Hasting’s Plan of 1774  
• Warren Hasting’s Plan of 1780  

3. Regulating Act, 1773  

• Supreme Court at Calcutta (1774)  
• Raja Nand Kumar Case  
• Case of Kamaluddin  
• Patna Case  
• Cossijurah Case  

4. Act of Settlement, 1781  
5. Judicial Plans of Lord Cornwallis  

• Judicial Plan of 1787  
• Judicial Plan of 1790  
• Judicial Plan of 1793  

6. Lord William Bentinck’s Judicial Reforms

• Reforms in Criminal Judiciary  
• Reforms in Civil Judicature  

Unit – II

7. Development of Personal Laws during the British Period  

• Development of Criminal Law  
• Development of Civil Law  

8. Justice, Equity and Good Conscience  
9. Charter Act of 1833  
10. Codification of Law  

• The First Law Commission  
• Charter Act, 1853  
• The Second Law Commission  

11. Establishment of High Courts
    (Indian High Courts Act, 1861)  
12. Privy Council  

• Federal Court  

Unit – III

13. Constitutional History of India  

• The Indian Councils’ Act, 1861  
• Minto-Morley Reforms, 1909 (The Government of
  India Act, 1909)  
• The Government of India Act, 1919  
• The Government of India Act, 1935  

14. Political Integration of India—Accession of Princely
    States and Reorganisation of the States  

Unit – IV

15. Colonialism  

• Stages of Colonialism  
• Impact on Economy
• Impact Colonialism on Agriculture  
• Impact Colonialism on Trade and Industry
• Emergence of Land as a Commodity  

16. Nationalist and Civil Disobedience Movement:
    Gandhian Movement

• Non-Cooperation Movements
• Civil Disobedience Movement  
• Quit India Movement  

17. Emergence of Communal Politics in India
    (Politics and Communalism)  
18. Changing Notions of Justice and Gender from Ancient 
    to Modern Times  

References