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- Introduction
- The Constitution and Historical Imagination
- Time: Founding Moments, Serialized Epics, and Everyday Postscripts
- Liberalism with Indian Characteristics: Individuals and Communities
- Conclusion: Freedom, Discipline, and The Paths Not Taken
January 26, 2020 marked the seventieth anniversary of the Indian Constitution. Official celebrations focused on memorializing the “fundamental duties” of the citizen in the constitution that range from “respecting public property and adjuring violence” to “respecting the national flag and national anthem.” In striking contrast, hundreds of thousand...
Taking stock on the sixtieth anniversary of the Indian Constitution, political scientist Pratap Bhanu Mehta noted that constitutions, “not only allocate authority, define the limits of power or enunciate values, they also constitute our sense of history and shape a sense of self,” but despite the centrality of the Constitution to Indian social and ...
Between December 1946 and November 1949, over 300 members of the Indian Constituent Assembly met and deliberated over a constitutional draft in Delhi. For Khosla, this is a distinct moment of founding when “India’s political elite converged on a set of liberal constitutional values without the inheritance of any major liberal traditions.”13 Khosla ...
In one of his final speeches to the Constituent Assembly, Dr Ambedkar worried that “democracy in India was only top dressing on a deeply undemocratic society.”28 Not only was Ambedkar intimately familiar with the exclusions and violence of a caste society, he had also led two decades of negotiations with both the British and the Congress Party to c...
Despite these limitations and differences, all three authors agree that the Indian constitutional experiment was unprecedented for the time and in terms of its success. The two contemporaneous constituent assemblies in Pakistan and Israel were unable to agree upon a constitutional document, and neither has had the same degree of longevity or popula...
- Rohit De
- 2020
The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution. Edited by Sujit Choudhry, Madhav Khosla, Pratap Bhanu Mehta. Abstract. This book explores the historical commitment to the idea of constitutionalism and how the framers understood India’s constitutional project.
Mar 28, 2019 · Chapter Six, the longest in the book, elaborates upon the constitutional regulation of Indian citizens’ identities. The emphasis upon the judiciary’s role continues here from Chapters Three and Four. This chapter discusses five identities—religion, language, caste, class and gender.
This chapter examines the question of interpretation with regard to the Indian Constitution. It begins with an overview of two meta-judgments underlying constitutional interpretation, the first of which relates to the legitimate source of the Constitution’s authority and the second to the tools and techniques that can be relied upon in order ...
Indian Supreme Court judgments that the use of literature and literary tools have been used in order to serve varied purposes and for a better interpretation of the Constitution. On several occasions, the Constitution drafted in 1949 has lacked the ability to capture or answer certain circumstances or fact scenarios and judges too find
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