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Thus, the first translation of the Mitākṣarā was by Colebrooke in 1810, [11] and it was only this section of the text that gave the British insight on how to deal with inheritance issues. At that point, the Mitākṣarā held the status of a legislative text because it was used as a direct resource regarding inheritance in the courts of law ...
Part XI of the Indian constitution specifies the distribution of legislative, administrative and executive powers between the union government and the States of India. [1] The legislative powers are categorised under a Union List, a State List and a Concurrent List, representing, respectively, the powers conferred upon the Union government ...
[11] The basic civil and criminal laws governing the citizens of India are set down in major parliamentary legislation, such as the civil procedure code, the penal code, and the criminal procedure code. [12] Similar to the Union government, individual state governments each consist of executive, legislative and judiciary branches.
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC; ISO: Saṁgha Loka Sevā Āyoga) is a constitutional body tasked with recruiting officers for All India Services and the Central Civil Services (Group A and B) through various standardized examinations. [1] In 2023, 1.3 million applicants competed for just 1,255 positions. [2]
Provincial elections were held in British India in January 1946 to elect members of the legislative councils of the Indian provinces. [1] The Congress, in a repeat of the 1937 elections, won (90%) of the general non-Muslim seats while the Muslim League won the majority of Muslim seats (87%) in the provinces.
Articles 245–255 on Distribution of Legislative Powers. The Constitution provides for a three-fold distribution of legislative subjects between the Union and the states, viz., List-I (the Union List), List-II (the State List) and List-III (the Concurrent List) in the Seventh Schedule: (i) The Parliament has exclusive powers to make laws with respect to any of the matters enumerated in the ...
Preliminary Examination: This is the first stage of the exam and consists of multiple-choice questions (MCQs) covering General Studies, General Aptitude, and relevant subjects. [9] Mains Examination: Candidates who qualify the preliminary exam are eligible to appear for the mains examination, which is a written test. The Mains exam is usually ...
11 December 1946: The Assembly appointed Rajendra Prasad as its president, [26] H. C. Mukherjee as its vice-president and, B. N. Rau as constitutional legal adviser. (There were initially 389 members in total, which declined to 299 after partition , out of the 389 members, 292 were from government provinces, four from chief commissioner ...