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      Constitutional Democracy in India
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      Constitutional Democracy in India

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      Constitutional Democracy in India book

      ByBidyut Chakrabarty
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2018
      eBook Published 22 January 2018
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315147833
      Pages 228
      eBook ISBN 9781315147833
      Subjects Area Studies, Politics & International Relations
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      Chakrabarty, B. (2018). Constitutional Democracy in India (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315147833

      ABSTRACT

      Constitutional democracy is both a structure of governance and a way of providing an ideological perspective on governance. The 1950 Constitution of India established constitutional democracy in India and the narrative of the rise and consolidation of constitutional democracy in India cannot be understood without comprehending the politico-ideological processes that consolidated simultaneously both colonialism and constitutional liberalism.

      This book examines the processes leading to constitutionalizing India and challenges the conventional idea that the Constitution of India is a borrowed doctrine. A careful study of the processes reveals that the 1950 Constitution was the culmination of an ideational battle that had begun with the consolidation of the British Enlightenment philosophy in the early days of British paramountcy in India. The book therefore argues that constitutionalizing endeavour in India had a clear imprint of ideas which had its root in this philosophy. The study reveals a striking continuity of the same kind of ideological sentiments when the nationalists devised their own constitutionalizing design, visible in the 1928 Motilal Nehru report and which reappeared in the 1945 Sapru Committee report. Deviating from the conventional study of constitutional evolution of a polity, which is generally legalistic, this book explores the processes since the beginning of colonial rule in India which led to the conceptualization of constitutional democracy in a milieu engaging with arguments formulated by James and JS Mill.

      A detailed analysis of the roots of constitutional and political liberalism in India, this book sheds light on the material surrounding India’s constitutional development. It will be of interest to scholars in the field of Indian Political Theory, South Asian Politics and History.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |23 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 1|26 pages

      Constitutional Democracy in India

      An ideational battle

      chapter 2|25 pages

      The British initiatives in constitutionalizing India

      chapter 3|25 pages

      Designing constitutional democracy in India

      The Constituent Assembly’s inputs

      chapter 4|26 pages

      Indian democracy

      Reconceptualizing liberalism in a non-Western context 1

      chapter 5|32 pages

      Changing texture of the Indian polity

      The 2014 national poll 1

      chapter 6|35 pages

      Judiciary and constitutional democracy in India

      chapter |11 pages

      Conclusion

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