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Author Bhatia, Udit

Title The Indian Constituent Assembly : Deliberations on Democracy
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (238 pages)
Contents 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) Bill7 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
Summary "The Indian Constituent Assembly laid the foundations of the largest democracy in the world. The debates between the members of the Assembly form the bedrock of the Indian Constitution. The chapters 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. A major contribution to the study of Indian politics, this book will be indispensable to political scientists, political theorists, legal scholars, historians, lawyers and general readers interested in the history of the Indian Constitution."--Provided by publisher
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Subject India. Constituent Assembly.
SUBJECT India. Constituent Assembly fast
Subject Constitutional conventions -- India
Constitutional history -- India
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
Constitutional conventions
Constitutional history
India
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351654999
1351654993