Legal positivism and Indian Constitution an analytical study

Abstract

The present study is the result of a comprehensive research work based on both the primary data and the secondary data. The study emphasizes on Relevance of Legal Positivism in 21st century in the Constitution of India. Relevant data was collected from literature available in India and in other countries. The thesis is an attempt to know the reasons responsible for the shifting of legal positivism to natural law. with the adoption of the Constitution of India, the influence of legal Positivism which was infused in the Indian legal system by the British colonial rulers is now reduce gradually and the law is being looked as an effective instrument of social change for the welfare of the society. Far from being treated as a command of the sovereign, law has to play a functional role in the present time to serve the vulnerable Indian masses.