Practice and procedure of parliament

This is the third edition of what is now considered as the standard book on Parliamentary Procedure and Practice in India. Since the last edition came out, changes have taken place in the Constitution of India and the application of Parliamentary Procedure and this edition is just in time to incorporate these changes. The authors are renowned scholars in Parliamentary procedure and have made their mark in India and abroad. They have been incharge of the parliamentary machine for the last forty years during which time they fully utilised the opportunities that arose to remodel the procedures.

The first change was in 1947 at the time of Independence when the Constituent Assembly became Sovereign Legislature and the then archaic procedure, whereby the Governor-General and the Speaker shared their powers of admission of notices, making of rules etc., was converted to a modern one fully adapted to the needs of a sovereign Parliament. Since that first modernisation, almost revolutionary in character, the authors have had opportunities of watching and studying the procedures of modern Parliaments abroad where by intimate and personal contact they imbibed. the ideas that lay behind the Constitutions and the rules of other parlia ments. In the result, our Rules of Procedure were amended from time to time and new concepts were adapted to the Indian conditions. Further new original ideas were introduced into the Rules and practices, which have come to be known as Indian innovations. In the course of years, the Rules of Procedure in India have become what one might say self reliant and self-propelling; they are harmonious, consistent and logical and are fully adapted to suit Indian conditions. This has aroused the interest of scholars in foreign countries, who have studied them carefully and commented on them.