Standard Form Contracts And Unequal Bargaining Power: Rethinking Freedom Of Contract Under Indian Jurisprudence

Garvit Arora, Amity University Noida ABSTRACT Contractual freedom has long been treated as a foundational premise of private law because it enables individuals and commercial entities to organise their legal relationships according to voluntarily accepted obligations. Traditional contract theory assumed that agreements emerged from meaningful bargaining between parties possessing relatively comparable negotiating strength. Contemporary commercial realities, however, reveal a significant...