Durga Das Basu was an Indian jurist and lawyer. He wrote the Commentary on the Constitution of India and Casebook on the Indian Constitutional Law. The former is one of the most important textbooks in social sciences and legal studies related to the Constitution of India. He was born in 1910.
Key Features: • Pioneering work on the Indian Constitution • First authoritative work on the Constitution of India that adopted an interdisciplinary approach, examining the constitution from the philosophical, sociological, political as well as legal perspectives. • First book to study and comparatively analyze other constitutions, including countries that do not belong to the Anglo-American jurisprudential tradition.
