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Which Way Is South Africa Going? By Carter Gwendolen M.. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980. Pp. xii + 162. $12.95.)

Somewhat annoying is Baxi's tendency to equivocate at critical junctures. He was deeply disappointed by Supreme Court decisions that effectively endorsed the grisly features of the Emergency, but he acknowledges that had the judges done much more, the Court probably would not have survived. He manages to castigate, applaud, and forgive the Court for the infamous Emergency habeas corpus (Shiv Kant) decision. Even his most original argument—that the post-Emergency Court has pursued an increasingly peopleoriented "frankly populistic" (p. 247) posture, is searching for new bases of legitimation of its power, and seeks to speak to the people at large—though consuming half the book, is too untidy and loosely presented to be persuasive. And one must seriously question whether any constitutional court, in either institutional or personnel terms, is adequate to the tasks Baxi would wish the Indian Court to perform. But if the book is at times incautious, it is also a truly seminal study, the most pioneering and most important ever written about the Supreme Court of India.