Contents:
I. Introductory;
II. Early charters and Surat factory;
III. Administration of Justice in Madras: 1639-1726;
IV. Administration of justice in Bombay: 1668-1726;
V. Administration of justice at Calcutta: 1690-1726;
VI. Mayor's courts;
VII. Beginning of the adalat system;
VIII. Supreme Courts at Calcutta;
IX. Supreme Courts at Bombay and Madras;
X. Re-organisation of the adalat system;
XI. Judicial measures of cornwallis;
XII. Progress of the adalat system: Sir John Shore;
XIII. Progress of the adalat system: Wellesley-Amherst (1798-1827);
XIV. Criminal juricature after cornwallis;
XV. Adalat system in Bengal: Bentinck and after;
XVI. Judicial system beyond Bengal;
XVII. Racial discrimination in the judicial sytem;
XVIII. Present judicial system;
XIX. High Courts;
XX. From privy council to Supreme Court;
XXI. Development of Criminal law: 1772-1860;
XXII. Development of civil law: Presidency towns;
XXIII. Development of civil law: Mofussil;
XXIV. Codification of law (1833-1882);
XXV. SOme select codes;
XXVI. Legislatures in India: 1861-1950;
XXVII. Law reform;
XXVIII. Personal laws of Hindus and Mohammedans;
XXIX. India wins independence;
XXX. Lw, rule of law & constitutional developments;
XXXI. Law reporting in India;
XXXII. Growth of legal profession;
XXXIII. Legal education;
Subject-Index.