Table of contents:

1. The heritage
2. Building a castle, but not in the air : the making of the constitution --
3. A brief outline of the constitution --
4. Gopalan, preventive detention, and habeas corpus --
5. Crossroads, Champakam Dorairajan and first amendment
6. The early struggles and peace at last : land reforms, Golaknath, Kesavananda, and articles 31-B and 31-C
7. The terms of the armistice : basic features of the constitution --
8. Democracy denuded : the aftermath of Kesavananda, emergency, and supersession of judges
9. All this and heaven too : directive principles of state policy
10. Smoothening the creases : equality before law
11. Ladders to climb and bridges to cross : reservations, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, and backward clauses --
12. Reentry of Eve in the Garden of Eden : women and women's rights
13. The garden of fruits and flowers : right to life
14. EAch for all and all for each : socialism
15. 'May your religion be the welfare of humanity' : secularism --
16. MInorities and minority institutions --
17. Labour law --
18. To speak or not to speak : freedom of expression
19. The sword of Damocles : contempt of court
20. The state, its instrumentalities and agencies
21. Each for all, all for each : federalism, the union, and the states --
22. To be heard or not to be heard : natural justice and the Supreme Court --
23. The taming of the shrew : administrative law
24. Whither has the magic of the flowers and fruits gone? Environmental law
25. Expanding the judicial universe : judicial activism
26. The garden is open to the public : public interest litigation --
27. Choosing the ruler : elections --
28. A contribution and not an exaction : taxation
29. The invasions and the defences : crime and criminal law
30. Conscience keepers of the law : judges and courts
31. Conclusion.