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Do you agree with the view that Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles of State Polity constitute the ‘Core and Conscience’ of the Indian Constitution? Comment on the emerging trends in their interrelationship.

  • UPSC 2005
  • Salient Features of the Indian Constitution

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The description comes from Granville Austin, The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation (1966), whose chapter on Parts III and IV is titled The Conscience of the Constitution: the core of the commitment to the social revolution, he argued, lies in these two Parts. Y. V. Chandrachud adopted it in Minerva Mills (1980), holding that…

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  • Why the View Holds
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