Tracing, exploring and analyzing all the dissenting judgments in the history of the Supreme Court of India, from the beginning till date, Rohinton Nariman brings to light the cases which created a deep impact in India's legal history. From Keshava Madhava Menon v. State of Bombay in 1951 to State of Bombay v. The United Motors (India) Ltd in 1953 to the famous Bengal Immunity Co. Ltd. v. State of Bihar in 1955 to Bhagwandas Goverdhandas Kedia v. Girdharilal Pashottamdas and Co. in 1966, Superintendent & Legal Remembrancer, State of West Bengal v. Corporation of Calcutta in 1967, Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association v. Union of India in 1993, Mafatlal Industries v. Union of India in 1997 to Pradeep Kumar Biswas v. Indian Institute of Chemical Biology in 2002, United Commercial Bank Ltd. v. Workmen and Ram Singh v. The State of Delhi in the same year and the great dissent of Justice Khanna in the ADM Jabalpur case among others, this two-volume definitive work is a thorough examination of the important dissenting judgments of the Supreme Court of India, and of some of the Judges of the Supreme Court who have gone down as 'Great Dissenters', for having written dissents of great legal and constitutional importance, many of which have gone on to be later accepted as stating the correct position of the law.
Comprehensive, definitive and authoritative, this is a must have for legal scholars and practitioners. Besides, the book will greatly interest policy makers as well as everyone interested in India's legal history.
In this book. I done a thorough study of all the dissenting judgments of the Supreme Court of India, and have attempted-in my own way to classify most of them according to their quality, conservatism and, the opposite-foresight.
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