Parliamentary Privilege in India

Seven centuries ago, an anonymous commentator observed that the law and custom of parliament was 'meet to be inquired into by all, but ignored by many, and known by few.' To no part of parliamentary law is this maxim so aptly applied as to the law of parliamentary privilege, a term which arouses contradictory passions in the heart of liberatarians.This book shows how the claims put forward over the years by developing legislative bodies in India, to exercise privilege comparable to those of the English Parliament were subjected to continuing resistance and accepted in their entirety only upon the enactment of the Indian Constitution of 1950 thereon.