Indian Supreme Court Judges
A Portrait1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5100877 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George H Gadbois (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 317-336 |
| Publication date | 1969-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Society Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3053006 |
| OpenAlex | W2328528015 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Thirty-six men served on the Supreme Court of India from its inception in 1950 through 1967. Examination of their background attributes reveals that the prototypic judge was the product of a socially prestige-ful and economically advantaged family, was a Hindu (most often a Brahmin), was educated at one of the better Indian universities or in England, spent twenty years in private law practice before the High Court in his home state, refrained from participation in the nationalist movement before 1947 and in postindependence politics thereafter, was appointed to the High Court before which he practiced when he was forty-seven, spent ten years as a High Court judge by which time he was the Chief Justice or seniormost puisne judge of that Court, and then was promoted to the Supreme Court when he was fifty-seven years of age. There are, of course, exceptions to this prototype, but striking is the homogeneous character and similar socialization experiences shared by these men
Art history · Political science · Portrait · Supreme court · History · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1971 - 2021 (51) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |