India brings back 62 volume of documents chronicling the textiles industry during Portuguese rule
India brings back 62 volume of documents chronicling the textiles industry during Portuguese rule
India Got Back 62 Volumes Of Documents From Lisbon Chronicling The Nature Of The Textiles Industry During Portuguese India. PTI | Updated on: 20 Jun 2017, 08:50:48 PM
New Delhi:
India got back 62 volumes of documents from Lisbon chronicling the nature of the textiles industry during Portuguese India, more than 200 years after they were taken away. These volumes will help join the missing dots of documented history of the period. The return has been facilitated thanks to a Protocol of Cooperation signed between the National Archives of India and the Ministry of Culture of the Portuguese Republic in the field of archives on 17th May in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Constitutional tradition requires the state’s decisions to be just, fair and reasonable and adhere to procedure
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Constitutional tradition requires the state’s decisions to be just, fair and reasonable and adhere to procedure
There is a pattern that emerges out of the contemporary Supreme Court of India’s most notable judgments. These rulings invariably begin with an homage to the ideas of the rule of law. But the opening tributes are left by the wayside when it comes time for the Court to apply those ideas to the case at hand. The invariable upshot: the executive government’s caprice trumps due process, and the rule of law survives only in name. The judgment delivered on January 5 in