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This edited collection presents a ground-breaking view of Indian administrative and regulatory law from a range of perspectives. With contributions from the most important Indian scholars and practitioners in the field the chapters in this book provide an invaluable contribution to the emerging conversations in comparative constitutional and administrative law.

Table of Contents

Part I
Introduction
1. The Reality of Indian Regulation
Devesh Kapur and Madhav Khosla

Part II
Foundations
2. Indian Administrative Law and the Challenges of the Regulatory State
Raeesa Vakil
3. Reclaiming Indian Administrative Law
Farrah Ahmed and Swati Jhaveri
4. Constitutional Regulation of the Fourth Branch
K Vivek Reddy

Part III
Regulatory Domains
5. Securities Markets
Umakanth Varottil
6. Banking
Suyash Rai
7. Infrastructure
Amit Kapur
8. Telecom
Rahul Matthan
9. Renewable Energy
Akshay Jaitly
10. The Environment
Shibani Ghosh
11. Food
Vikramaditya S Khanna
12. Big Data
Ananth Padmanabhan and Anirudh Rastogi

Part IV
Regulation in Practice
13. The Enforcement of Indian Competition Law: Administrative or Regulatory?
Aditya Bhattacharjea
14. Sanctions and Self-Regulation in the Securities Market
Neel Maitra
15. Regulatory Pragmatism: The Use of the Ban
Susan L Ostermann
16. Statutory Regulatory Authorities: Evolution and Impact
KP Krishnan and Anirudh Burman
17. Building State Capacity for Regulation
Shubho Roy, Ajay Shah, Justice (Retd) BN Srikrishna and Somasekhar Sundaresan

About the Author

Devesh Kapur is the Starr Foundation South Asia Studies Professor and Asia Programs Director at the Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC.

Madhav Khosla is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.

Reviews

This volume, the first to examine the regulatory state in India, contributes not only to our understanding of governance in that country, but also the dynamics of regulation more generally. With a series of excellent chapters on key substantive areas, the book explores how the challenges posed by technological change, economic globalization, and limited technical capacity play out in the Indian context. It will surely become a go-to volume in comparative administrative and regulatory studies.
*Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, University of Chicago*

This book highlights the various dimensions of a regulatory regime in the context of a democratic polity. By striking a unique balance between the broad principles underpinning an administrative framework and the regulatory aspects of specialized sectors in the economy, this book is a much needed contribution to the existing discourse on the administrative state.
*Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Judge, Supreme Court of India*

This first major study of regulation and regulatory institutions in India brings together superb scholarship on a much neglected but increasingly influential pillar of public governance. This magisterial volume offers lessons not just for India but countries around the world and will prove to be the standard reference on this topic.
*Arvind Subramanian, Former Chief Economic Adviser, Government of India*