Author: Udit Bhatia
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351654993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The essays in this volume propose a range of methodological perspectives from which these critical debates might be read. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, they explore themes such as party politics, ideas of rights, including caste and minority rights, social justice and the philosophy of free speech.
The Indian Constituent Assembly
Author: Udit Bhatia
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351654993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The essays in this volume propose a range of methodological perspectives from which these critical debates might be read. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, they explore themes such as party politics, ideas of rights, including caste and minority rights, social justice and the philosophy of free speech.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351654993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The essays in this volume propose a range of methodological perspectives from which these critical debates might be read. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, they explore themes such as party politics, ideas of rights, including caste and minority rights, social justice and the philosophy of free speech.
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States
Author: Joseph Story
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
India’s Founding Moment
Author: Madhav Khosla
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674980875
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
An Economist Best Book of the Year How India’s Constitution came into being and instituted democracy after independence from British rule. Britain’s justification for colonial rule in India stressed the impossibility of Indian self-government. And the empire did its best to ensure this was the case, impoverishing Indian subjects and doing little to improve their socioeconomic reality. So when independence came, the cultivation of democratic citizenship was a foremost challenge. Madhav Khosla explores the means India’s founders used to foster a democratic ethos. They knew the people would need to learn ways of citizenship, but the path to education did not lie in rule by a superior class of men, as the British insisted. Rather, it rested on the creation of a self-sustaining politics. The makers of the Indian Constitution instituted universal suffrage amid poverty, illiteracy, social heterogeneity, and centuries of tradition. They crafted a constitutional system that could respond to the problem of democratization under the most inhospitable 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 characterized by low levels of economic growth and education, where voting populations are deeply divided by race, religion, and ethnicity. And these countries have democratized at once, not gradually. The events and ideas of India’s Founding Moment offer a natural reference point for these nations where democracy and constitutionalism have arrived simultaneously, and they remind us of the promise and challenge of self-rule today.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674980875
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
An Economist Best Book of the Year How India’s Constitution came into being and instituted democracy after independence from British rule. Britain’s justification for colonial rule in India stressed the impossibility of Indian self-government. And the empire did its best to ensure this was the case, impoverishing Indian subjects and doing little to improve their socioeconomic reality. So when independence came, the cultivation of democratic citizenship was a foremost challenge. Madhav Khosla explores the means India’s founders used to foster a democratic ethos. They knew the people would need to learn ways of citizenship, but the path to education did not lie in rule by a superior class of men, as the British insisted. Rather, it rested on the creation of a self-sustaining politics. The makers of the Indian Constitution instituted universal suffrage amid poverty, illiteracy, social heterogeneity, and centuries of tradition. They crafted a constitutional system that could respond to the problem of democratization under the most inhospitable 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 characterized by low levels of economic growth and education, where voting populations are deeply divided by race, religion, and ethnicity. And these countries have democratized at once, not gradually. The events and ideas of India’s Founding Moment offer a natural reference point for these nations where democracy and constitutionalism have arrived simultaneously, and they remind us of the promise and challenge of self-rule today.
Voices in the Wilderness
Author: Anjoo Balhara Sharma
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9388414837
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9388414837
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
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.
The Indian Constitution
Author: Granville Austin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitution
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitution
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Constitutional Precedents
Author: India. Constituent Assembly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Framing of India's Constitution
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Constituent Assembly Debates of India
Author:
Publisher: Satish Law Agency
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 10722
Book Description
Constituent Assembly Debates (VOLUME 1 to VOLUME 12) (9th December, 1946 to 24th January, 1950) [E-BOOK]
Publisher: Satish Law Agency
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 10722
Book Description
Constituent Assembly Debates (VOLUME 1 to VOLUME 12) (9th December, 1946 to 24th January, 1950) [E-BOOK]
Ambedkar's Preamble
Author: Aakash Singh Rathore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780143457183
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780143457183
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Ideas and Men Behind the Indian Constitution
Author: Bimal Prasad
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description