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Discuss the basic features of the judicial administration under the East India Company. Did the British introduce the modem concept of the rule of law in India?

  • UPSC 1986
  • Early Structure of the British Raj

The East India Company's judicial system evolved from a makeshift borrowing of Mughal forms into a codified, racially stratified colonial apparatus, and whether this amounted to a genuine rule of law remains sharply contested.

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  • From Mughal Continuity to Hastings' Judicial Plan of 1772
  • The Regulating Act (1773) and the Supreme Court
  • Cornwallis and the Separation of Powers
  • Did the British Introduce the Rule of Law?
  • The Case For
  • The Case Against

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