The Informal Constitution: Unwritten Criteria in Selecting Judges for the Supreme Court of India (OIP)

Enacted for historical reasons on 26 January 1950, the Constitution of India provided that the Supreme Court of India, situated in New Delhi, was to have one Chief Justice of India, and not more than seven judges. Today, the Court has 33 judges in addition to the Chief Justice of India. But who are these judges, and where did they come from?
Its central thesis is that despite all established formal constitutional requirements, there are three informal criteria which are used for appointing j...