Chakrabarty | Constitutional Democracy in India | Buch | 978-0-367-89155-8 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in South Asian Politics

Chakrabarty

Constitutional Democracy in India


1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-89155-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in South Asian Politics

ISBN: 978-0-367-89155-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd


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.

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Introduction 1. Constitutional Democracy in India: an ideational battle 2. The British initiatives in constitutionalizing India 3. Designing of constitutional democracy in India: the Constituent Assembly’s inputs 4. Indian Democracy: liberalism in its reinvented form 5. Changing texture of Indian polity, the 2014 national poll and its aftermath 6. Judiciary and Constitutional Democracy in India Conclusion


Bidyut Chakrabarty is Professor in Political Science at the University of Delhi, India. He is the author of numerous books on Indian Politics and Gandhi. His most recent monograph is Localizing Governance in India, also published by Routledge (2017).



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