A model of authority
The Constitution, Acts of Parliament, delegated legislation, regulators' instruments and judgments are held as tiers, each linked to the power it rests on.
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The connected law of India, as a knowledge base you can query.
BanyanGraph holds Indian law and regulation as a chain of authority — the Constitution, the Acts it empowers, the instruments regulators issue under them and the judgments that interpret them — with every link dated, so a question about a date is answered with the law as it stood.
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The root: the Constitution
Article 246 and the Seventh Schedule give Parliament power over subjects such as banking (List I, entry 45), insurance (entry 47) and stock exchanges (entry 48). Laws made before 1950, like the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, continue in force under Article 372. The tree shows authority as it stands today, not the order in which laws were made.
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The limbs: Acts of Parliament
Parliament exercises that power in Acts that establish regulators — the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Act, 1999 and the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Act, 2013.
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The leaves: regulators' instruments
The regulators those Acts create or empower issue their own directions, circulars, regulations and notifications. Each is kept with its identifier, its date and the power it was issued under.
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The aerial roots: judgments
Courts and tribunals interpret and test all of it against the Constitution. Like a banyan's aerial roots, judgments come down and anchor the structure, and each links back to the provisions it reads.
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Time
Every link carries the date it held. A replaced instrument stays, marked as replaced — so the law as it stood on any date can be answered, and an earlier answer can be reproduced.
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Breadth
Illustrative coverage and planned breadth: the lit canopy and wider outline show source families — the Constitution, central Acts and rules, financial regulators, courts and tribunals. The engineering snapshot below records current pipeline status.
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Ask it
A question returns a cited path, from a circular or a judgment back to the Constitution. BanyanGraph is being built to answer through an API and MCP tools for AI assistants, with reranked retrieval and local synthesis In development
Knowledge, not a pile of documents.
A graph with time in it
Instruments connect by what they empower, amend, replace, cite and interpret. Each link keeps when it held and when we recorded it, so late discoveries never rewrite an earlier answer.
Addressable to the clause
Chapters, clauses, tables and defined terms become parts that can be searched by meaning and followed through the graph.
Where it stands.
The dated engineering snapshot records the internal pipeline slice completed so far; corpus totals await a database backup recount.
| Measure | Current evidence | As of |
|---|---|---|
| Dated graph records | Built in an internal pipeline slice | 27 Aug 2026 |
| Schema completion | Checked for that internal slice | 27 Aug 2026 |
| Customer-facing search | Not available | 28 Sep 2026 |
Corpus and graph totals await completion of the database backup recount. Customer-facing search is in development. See the evidence
A question, traced to its authority.
Illustrative example: the path BanyanGraph is designed to follow for a question asked as of a date, and the record it returns. The retrieval service currently runs in our engineering environment; customer-facing search is in development.
- Question
- What applied to this obligation on 1 April 2025?
- Valid time
- 1 April 2025 — only instruments in force that day
- Answer grain
- The clause, not the whole document
- Authority
- Clause → the regulator's direction → the Act it was issued under → the constitutional power behind the Act
- Later changes
- Amendments after the date are marked, not applied
- Thin evidence
- It abstains, and shows what was searched
- Receipt
- A trace identifier and the corpus watermark
- Next research step
- Extract and validate chains of instruments that replace one another at scale
What you can engage us for today
- Technical briefings, and conversations with prospective design partners.
In development
- The knowledge base's API and MCP tools.
- Reranked retrieval and local synthesis.
- Curator, the research interface built on it.
- The ingestion pipeline and the Constitution theme are built and in internal use (snapshot 27 Aug 2026) — not publicly available.
Talk to us about BanyanGraph.
Tell us which part of Indian law or regulation your work depends on. We will tell you honestly what the knowledge base covers today and what it does not.