Republic Of Rhetoric Free Speech And The Constitution of India

Exploring the legal and political history of India from the British period to the presentRepublic of Rhetoric examines the right to free speech and it argues that the enactment of the Constitution in 1950 did not make a significant difference to the freedom of expression in India. Abhinav Chandrachud suggests that colonial-era restrictions on free speech like sedition obscenity contempt of court defamation and hate speech were not merely retained but also strengthened in independent India. Authoritative and compelling this book offers lucid and cogent arguments that have not been substantially advanced before by any of the leading thinkers on the right of free speech in India. About the Author Abhinav Chandrachud is an advocate who practises at the Bombay High Court. He graduated from the LL.M. program at Harvard Law School where he was a Dana Scholar and from the JSM and JSD programs at Stanford Law School where he was a Franklin Family Scholar. He has worked as an associate attorney at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher a global law firm. He is the author of Republic of Rhetoric Free Speech and the Constitution of India (2017) andSupreme Whispers Conversations with Judges of the Supreme Court of India 1980-1989 (2018). He has also written for several leading newspapers in India includingThe Hindu Indian Express andTimes of India and taught at Cornell Law School and NALSAR University of Law.