V.N. Shukla's Constitution of India (Old Edition)

First published 1950, this work has grown consistently in popularity and is recognised as one of the foremost authoritative works on the subject. The encouraging and enthusiastic response and the wide acceptance of even the tenth edition of this book have prompted Prof. Mahendra P. Singh, an eminent scholar of constitutional law to bring out the eleventh edition with up-to-date case law and information. 

The new edition continues to give a broad perspective of the frame work of the Indian Constitution and its salient features so that the reader can get an overview. The author has included the frequent multidimensional constitutional developments in a most readable and easily comprehensible form. 

The book has been expanding its acceptability with every new edition. From primarily a student textbook it has grown into a reference work for researchers, scholars, lawyers and the courts. More and more references are seen in legal literature, including overseas publications, which is certainly a comprehensible pointer to the acceptability of the book among the academic circles. The ninth edition of this book was cited in Nlandazeli Fose v. The Minister of Safety and Security (Case CCT 14/96, heard on 10th September 1996, decided on 5 June 1997), a decision of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. The tenth edition of the book has been referred to by the Supreme Court in Rameshwar Prasad v. Union of India, (2006) 2 SCC 1 at 64). 

About the Author:

Mahendra Pal Singh (born 15 July 1940), popularly known as M.P. Singh, is a constitutional law scholar of India. He is best known amongst students of Constitution of India for being the revising author of V.N. Shukla's Constitution of India a standard textbook for lawyers on Constitution of India. Internationally however, he is more famous amongst scholars of comparative constitutional law and comparative administrative law for his work, German Administrative Law in Common Law Perspective.

Professor Singh has laid especial emphasis in making legal education more meaningful to Indian society by making the top law schools more accessible to the students from less privileged background. At NUJS, and since, he has been leading an effort called IDIA, or 'Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access', which involves an engagement with school going children from different parts of semi-urban and rural India and to encourage and help them enter the top law schools of the country. Towards the same end, he has also been heading a group of academicians, called the Legal Education and Research Society or 'LEARS' as it is popularly referred to. He has also been running a school in his village Jitholi for the children of the nearby places. Students from NUJS and volunteers from IDIA have often visited and interacted with the kids of this school