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LANDMARKS IN INDIAN LEGAL & CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY, Sumeet Malik-----MR KULSHRESHTHA has done well in presenting in the form of an essay the constitutional developments in India during the British period, with a brief' refer ence to the judicial systems in ancient and mediaeval periods. To the practising lawyer as well as the academician the subject is of great interest. A history of the development of administrative and judicial institutions since the setting up by the East India Company of its settlements in the east, the south and the west coasts early in the 17th century till 1950, when the authority of the British rule finally ended, is a fascinating study of the evolutionary process by which the people of India reached unity with the rule of law as their guiding force and achieved a modern administrative mechanism, a system of parliamentary democracy and a judicial system independent of executive interference. Mr Kulshreshtha has presented in a readable form the various landmarks in the Indian development-legal as well as constitutional. I hope the book will be useful to the students for whom it is primarily meant and to the busy lawyers as a reference book.