Amlan Panigrahi, KIIT School of Law, Bhubaneswar
ABSTRACT
The Paper provides for the interpretation of the doctrine of the basic structure of the Indian Constitution. The paper focuses on the meaning of the basic structure and the evolution of the basic structure doctrine. Different case laws and the recommendations of certain committees have been taken into consideration for the study. Analysis of certain landmark cases such as the Keshavananda Bharati case, The Indira Gandhi Election case, and many other cases have been done to study what is the nature of basic structure in the language of the judiciary and certain committees have also been brought under the purview of the study to understand its nature from the standpoint of the governments and different intellectuals.
