scholarship. Some of the genuine attempts to reassess doctrinal aspects of Indian law are impressive, but these are rare and were developed more by practitioners rather than the emerging scholars on Indian law. The fact remains that the passing of the Constitution did not stimulate a revival in Indian studies of law. To the practitioner the new idiomatic phrases used in the Constitution were a means, and an opportunity, to reinforced their declining status. To the judge, the new constitutional doctrines provided an opportunity to display his cosmopolitan understanding and learning. A new comparative literature was developed which mechanically cross-referenced English, American, and Australian citations for analogous provisions in the Indian Constitution. While Indian law was caught in its 'craze for foreign things', it was also being manipulated by the more advantaged sections. The result was as piquant as it was purposive. Dressed in Western garments, Indian public and private law served emerging interest with an untidy integrity. 36. Indian legal scholarship seemed to enter into its mechanical phase. After the rishis, the nineteenth century had witnessed a creative, even if patently false, re-interpretation of indigenous law, a carefully worked-through induction of Western law into India and a spate of litigation which gave this law social meaning. The rishis became reformers; and the reformers compilers of indexes. Connected more with the market place of litigation rather than the marked place of ideas, Indian publishing houses produced a plethora
