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This chapter elaborates Ambedkar’s constitutional thought on liberty and compares the same with competing conceptualizations of liberty in Western political traditions. It argues that unlike the West where the concept was developed keeping at the centre the figure of a slave, Ambedkar conceptualized liberty in light of the practice of untouchability in India. Examining the ‘postcolonial’ critical analysis, the chapter extends its enquiry to the particularistic and universalistic categories of comparative methodology, and concludes that the relationship between universality and particularity is messier than what has been generally presented by the comparitivists, and that the concept of liberty ‘contemporanized’ by Ambedkar in his constitutional thought can be utilized in a similar manner more widely across the globe.

This work aims at covering the various issues relating to inclusive education. Special education imparted in special schools for the disabled is beyond the scope of this project. The essay is divided into two sections. A succinct discussion on the international and national socio-legal perspectives on disability rights is made in the first section. The second section elaborately studies the project of inclusive education. It brings out the significant transmission from segregated to inclusive education to facilitate in the empowerment of the disabled and enabling their integration in mainstream society. Besides narrating the various legal provisions in India in this regard from a historical point of view, it analyzes some national and West Bengal specific quantitative literature to assess the impact of the new initiative. The section ends with the findings of ground research in a few schools in Kolkata to gauge their attitude towards disabled children and their education.

The doctrine of agency of necessity which prescribes that in a situation of emergency the agent is automatically authorized to act on the principal's behalf, is one of the oldest means of creating anagency. However, of late, the growth and development of the law of express and implied authority has made such ancient notions redundant. This article will explicate the doctrine of agency of necessity. Next, the creation of agency by authority will be evaluated. Finally, the article will critique the creation of agency by operation of law and argue in favour of amalgamating it within the general law of actual and apparent authority.