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Politics and ethics of the Indian constitution / edited by Rajeev Bhargava

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2008Description: vi, 408 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780195692556
  • 0195692551
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 342.5402 22
LOC classification:
  • KNS1734 .P65 2008
Contents:
Section I. The Constitution as a statement of Indian identity / Bhikhu Parekh -- Gandhi and the Constitution : Parliamentary Swaraj and village Swaraj / Thomas Pantham -- Institutional visions and sociological imaginations: the debate on Panchayati Raj / Peter Ronald deSouza -- Outline of a theory of practice of Indian constitutionalism / Upendra Baxi -- A text without author : locating the constituent assembly as event / Aditya Nigam
Section II. The Indian state : Constitution and beyond / Suhas Palshikar -- Citizenship and the Indian Constitution / Valenian Rodrigues -- Citizenship and the passive revolution : interpreting the First Amendment / Nivedita Menon -- Democracy and Constitutionalism / Sanjay Palshikar -- Constitutional justice : positional and cultural / Gopal Guru
Section III. Religion and the Indian Constitution : questions of separation and equality / Gurpreet Mahajan -- Passion and constraint: courts and the regulation of religious meaning / Pratap Bhanu Mehta -- Rights versus representation: defending minority interests in the constituent assembly / Shefali Jha -- Minority representation and the making of the Indian Constitution / Rochana Bajpai
Summary: Contributed articles presented at a conference on the political philosophy of the Indian constitution held in Goa in Sept. 2001
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Includes bibliographical references and index

Section I. The Constitution as a statement of Indian identity / Bhikhu Parekh -- Gandhi and the Constitution : Parliamentary Swaraj and village Swaraj / Thomas Pantham -- Institutional visions and sociological imaginations: the debate on Panchayati Raj / Peter Ronald deSouza -- Outline of a theory of practice of Indian constitutionalism / Upendra Baxi -- A text without author : locating the constituent assembly as event / Aditya Nigam

Section II. The Indian state : Constitution and beyond / Suhas Palshikar -- Citizenship and the Indian Constitution / Valenian Rodrigues -- Citizenship and the passive revolution : interpreting the First Amendment / Nivedita Menon -- Democracy and Constitutionalism / Sanjay Palshikar -- Constitutional justice : positional and cultural / Gopal Guru

Section III. Religion and the Indian Constitution : questions of separation and equality / Gurpreet Mahajan -- Passion and constraint: courts and the regulation of religious meaning / Pratap Bhanu Mehta -- Rights versus representation: defending minority interests in the constituent assembly / Shefali Jha -- Minority representation and the making of the Indian Constitution / Rochana Bajpai

Contributed articles presented at a conference on the political philosophy of the Indian constitution held in Goa in Sept. 2001

Includes bibliographical references and index

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