The rule of law through 'thick' and 'thin'

The book does not offer real-life examples, bar the odd reference to individual cases, which makes it somewhat academic to the lay reader

Rule of Law in India

Harish Narasappa 

Oxford University Press 

206 pages, Rs 895

“We are only hanging on to the rule of law by the tiniest edges of our fingertips. We have to lift ourselves up and stand before we can begin walking the miles towards civil society,” is how Harish Narasappa ends his book, Rule of Law in India. Rarely a truer word written, you might say, in the context of what's happening in Indian society.

From the theoretical foundations of the rule of law in the Western liberal tradition to the codification of text and manifestation in practice, the book