Article 30 Minority Education Case Law Dataset and Doctrinal Drift Index (1950–2024)

Dataset and Replication Materials for “Judicial Reallocation of Minority Educational Autonomy: Measuring Constitutional Drift under Article 30 through a Doctrinal Drift Index.”

This repository contains the dataset and replication materials used in the study examining judicial interpretation of Article 30 of the Constitution of India, which guarantees minority communities the right to establish and administer educational institutions.

The dataset includes 130 judicial decisions from the Supreme Court of India and various High Courts between 1950 and 2024. Each case is coded using a structured framework based on Hohfeldian legal relations, capturing five dimensions of minority institutional autonomy: establishment rights, administrative autonomy, institutional discretion, regulatory immunity, and financial autonomy.

Using these coded dimensions, the study constructs the Doctrinal Drift Index (DDI), which measures the divergence between judicial outcomes and a constitutional baseline derived from early Article 30 jurisprudence. The dataset allows replication of the statistical analysis reported in the article, including descriptive statistics and temporal analysis of doctrinal change.

The repository contains:

• Clean dataset of Article 30 judicial decisions

• Coding protocol and variable definitions

• Documentation of the Doctrinal Drift Index methodology

These materials are provided to facilitate transparency, reproducibility, and further research on constitutional interpretation and minority rights.