The beginning: Legislative architecture and Constitutional mandate in conflict

The beginning: Legislative architecture and Constitutional mandate in conflict

Two treatises—Socio-spatial Consequences of the Disturbed Areas Act 1991 on Urbanizing Spaces in Gujarat by Shrivastava and Saffron geographies of exclusion: The Disturbed Areas Act of Gujarat by Tejani, both of 2002, by all counts a very tough year for harmony and national integration—and an analysis of the Act itself, read in the context of the Constitution, together raise a clear red flag for those willing to read between the lines. The two t…