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Author: Udit Bhatia Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1351654993 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 238
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 "We the people?": politics and the conundrum of framing a constitution on the eve of decolonisation -- 2 Conflict, not consensus: towards a political economy of the making of the Indian Constitution -- 3 Pride and prejudice in Austin's cornerstone: passions in the Constituent Assembly of India -- 4 The antecedents of social rights in India -- 5 The conservative constitution: freedom of speech and the Constituent Assembly Debates -- 6 Freedom of speech in the early constitution: a study of the Constitution (First Amendment) Bill -- 7 Between inequality and identity: the Indian Constituent Assembly Debates and religious difference, 1946-50 -- 8 "We the people": seamless webs and social revolution in India's Constituent Assembly Debates -- 9 India's republican moment -- Index
Author: Udit Bhatia Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1351654993 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 238
Book Description
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 "We the people?": politics and the conundrum of framing a constitution on the eve of decolonisation -- 2 Conflict, not consensus: towards a political economy of the making of the Indian Constitution -- 3 Pride and prejudice in Austin's cornerstone: passions in the Constituent Assembly of India -- 4 The antecedents of social rights in India -- 5 The conservative constitution: freedom of speech and the Constituent Assembly Debates -- 6 Freedom of speech in the early constitution: a study of the Constitution (First Amendment) Bill -- 7 Between inequality and identity: the Indian Constituent Assembly Debates and religious difference, 1946-50 -- 8 "We the people": seamless webs and social revolution in India's Constituent Assembly Debates -- 9 India's republican moment -- Index
Author: Madhav Khosla Publisher: ISBN: 0674980875 Category : Constitutional history Languages : en Pages : 241
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"How did the founders of the most populous democratic nation in the world meet the problem of establishing a democracy after the departure of foreign rule? The justification for British imperial rule had stressed the impossibility of Indian self-government. At the heart of India's founding moment, in which constitution-making and democratization occurred simultaneously, lay the question of how to implement democracy in an environment regarded as unqualified for its existence. India's founders met this challenge in direct terms-the people, they acknowledged, had to be educated to create democratic citizens. But the path to education lay not in being ruled by a superior class of men but rather in the very creation of a self-sustaining politics. Universal suffrage was instituted amidst poverty, illiteracy, social heterogeneity, and centuries of tradition. Under the guidance of B. R. Ambedkar, Indian lawmakers crafted a constitutional system that could respond to the problem of democratization under the most inhospitable of conditions. On January 26, 1950, the Indian constitution-the longest in the world-came into effect. More than half of the world's constitutions have been written in the past three decades. Unlike the constitutional revolutions of the late-eighteenth century, these contemporary revolutions have occurred in countries that are characterized by low levels of economic growth and education; are divided by race, religion, and ethnicity; and have democratized at once, rather than gradually. The Indian founding is a natural reference point for such constitutional moments-when democracy, constitutionalism, and modernity occur simultaneously"--
Author: Shibani Kinkar Chuabe Publisher: ISBN: Category : Constitutional conventions Languages : en Pages : 272
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The First Editon Of This Book Was Published 25 Years After Independence. This, Second, Edition Has Been Revised Keeping In View The Debates On The Constitution That Cropped Up In The Next 28 Years, Including The Current One, On The Revision Of The Entire Text, And Is Based On The Belief That The Constitution Of India Was Framed Within An Integrated Legal Political Structure Which May Be Affected By Piecemeal Amendments.
Author: Anjoo Balhara Sharma Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 9388414837 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 204
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Whether the Congress party put forth a clichéd argument of accountability versus stability in defence of a parliamentary system, in haste, to enjoy the plums of office is the debate at the core of this book. The author takes the debate out of the realms of academia and into the homes of general readers. Students of history, political science and law have been fed on works of celebrated authors on the making of the Constitution of India. This is only half the story told. This book captures the disquiet among the members of the Constituent Assembly and outbursts by members of the dominant party that its leaders were 'settling' the Constitution behind closed doors. It examines threadbare the conclusion of many scholars that a great amount of deliberation and debate on merit took place in the Constituent Assembly before arriving at a form of government best suited to India. Proposed meaningful and far-reaching amendments made by some members, whom Ambedkar fondly called the 'rebels', were rejected outright, under one pretext or another, to silence dissent. The post-Independence political history of India bears testimony that the apprehensions voiced by these so-called 'rebels' played out to be true. In the Constituent Assembly, however, their voices, pregnant with a warning, were voices in the wilderness.
Author: Rohit De Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691210381 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 308
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It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950, a document in English created by elite consensus, has had little influence on India’s greater population. Drawing upon the previously unexplored records of the Supreme Court of India, A People’s Constitution upends this narrative and shows how the Constitution actually transformed the daily lives of citizens in profound and lasting ways. This remarkable legal process was led by individuals on the margins of society, and Rohit De looks at how drinkers, smugglers, petty vendors, butchers, and prostitutes—all despised minorities—shaped the constitutional culture. The Constitution came alive in the popular imagination so much that ordinary people attributed meaning to its existence, took recourse to it, and argued with it. Focusing on the use of constitutional remedies by citizens against new state regulations seeking to reshape the society and economy, De illustrates how laws and policies were frequently undone or renegotiated from below using the state’s own procedures. De examines four important cases that set legal precedents: a Parsi journalist’s contestation of new alcohol prohibition laws, Marwari petty traders’ challenge to the system of commodity control, Muslim butchers’ petition against cow protection laws, and sex workers’ battle to protect their right to practice prostitution. Exploring how the Indian Constitution of 1950 enfranchised the largest population in the world, A People’s Constitution considers the ways that ordinary citizens produced, through litigation, alternative ethical models of citizenship.
Author: Jon Elster Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108427529 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 267
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Since 1787, constituent assemblies have shaped politics. This book provides a comparative, theoretical framework for understanding them.
Author: Udit Bhatia
Author: Udit Bhatia
Author: India. Constituent Assembly
Author: Madhav Khosla
Author: Granville Austin
Author: Shibani Kinkar Chuabe
Author: Anjoo Balhara Sharma
Author: Rohit De
Author: Jon Elster
Author: Bimal Prasad
Author: India. Constituent Assembly