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The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine whether Article 363 of the Constitution bars courts from hearing disputes relating to properties of erstwhile princely states mentioned under the ...

Often forgotten in the narratives of how India achieved independence is the question of the princely states. Ruling over two-fifths of pre-Partition India, the princes were given the choice of ...

If India’s Constitution bars courts from adjudicating disputes arising from pre-Independence covenants, can erstwhile royal families like that of Jaipur ever reclaim their legacy properties? Or have ...

SWAT: Scholars and archaeologists have said that archaeology becomes meaningfully understandable only when studied within a wider socio-political context, as it reveals not just how archaeological ...

The petitioner raised a plea of discrimination, contending that the Mizo chiefs stood on an equal historical footing with the rulers of the erstwhile princely states.

Article 363 bars the interference of courts in any disputes which may arise from certain treaties, agreements, covenants, sanad, engagements, etc., executed between a princely state and the Government ...