The Constitution of India

The Constitution of India
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 291
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ISBN-10 : 9781849468701
ISBN-13 : 1849468702
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Synopsis The Constitution of India by : Arun K Thiruvengadam

This book provides an overview of the content and functioning of the Indian Constitution, with an emphasis on the broader socio-political context. It focuses on the overarching principles and the main institutions of constitutional governance that the world's longest written constitution inaugurated in 1950. The nine chapters of the book deal with specific aspects of the Indian constitutional tradition as it has evolved across seven decades of India's existence as an independent nation. Beginning with the pre-history of the Constitution and its making, the book moves onto an examination of the structural features and actual operation of the Constitution's principal governance institutions. These include the executive and the parliament, the institutions of federalism and local government, and the judiciary. An unusual feature of Indian constitutionalism that is highlighted here is the role played by technocratic institutions such as the Election Commission, the Comptroller and Auditor General, and a set of new regulatory institutions, most of which were created during the 1990s. A considerable portion of the book evaluates issues relating to constitutional rights, directive principles and the constitutional regulation of multiple forms of identity in India. The important issue of constitutional change in India is approached from an atypical perspective. The book employs a narrative form to describe the twists, turns and challenges confronted across nearly seven decades of the working of the constitutional order. It departs from conventional Indian constitutional scholarship in placing less emphasis on constitutional doctrine (as evolved in judicial decisions delivered by the High Courts and the Supreme Court). Instead, the book turns the spotlight on the political bargains and extra-legal developments that have influenced constitutional evolution. Written in accessible prose that avoids undue legal jargon, the book aims at a general audience that is interested in understanding the complex yet fascinating challenges posed by constitutionalism in India. Its unconventional approach to some classic issues will stimulate the more seasoned student of constitutional law and politics.

The Republic of India

The Republic of India
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Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:1120811422
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Synopsis The Republic of India by : Alan Gledhill

A People's Constitution

A People's Constitution
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 9780691210384
ISBN-13 : 0691210381
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis A People's Constitution by : Rohit De

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.

An Introduction to the Constitution of India, 5th Edition

An Introduction to the Constitution of India, 5th Edition
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Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 9788125918325
ISBN-13 : 8125918329
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis An Introduction to the Constitution of India, 5th Edition by : Pylee M.V.

An Introduction to the Constitution of India, 5th Edition

Our Constitution

Our Constitution
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Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015051936683
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Synopsis Our Constitution by : Subhash C. Kashyap

A commentary and study.

India’s Founding Moment

India’s Founding Moment
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9780674980877
ISBN-13 : 0674980875
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis India’s Founding Moment by : Madhav Khosla

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.

The Constitution of India

The Constitution of India
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Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 9798693353770
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Synopsis The Constitution of India by : Constituent Assembly of India

The constitution of India is the lengthiest constitution in the world. Though mainly derived from government of India act, 1935, it has adopted articles from constitutions of a number of countries -USA, CANADA, ENGLANDEvery Political Scientist, Lawyer, Student preparing for various competitive exam and even every responsible citizen of the land must be aware of various parts and article.People of other countries, who wish to compare their constitution with the constitution of India must also read it.

Ambedkar's Preamble

Ambedkar's Preamble
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Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 0143457187
ISBN-13 : 9780143457183
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Ambedkar's Preamble by : Aakash Singh Rathore

V.N. Shukla's Constitution of India

V.N. Shukla's Constitution of India
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Total Pages : 1192
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105060303166
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Synopsis V.N. Shukla's Constitution of India by : Vijaya Narain Shukla