Constitutional Democracy in India

ISBN-13: 9780367891558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 216 str.

Bidyut Chakrabarty

Opis

This book examines the processes leading to constitutionalizing India and challenges the conventional idea that the Constitution of India is a borrowed doctrine.

 

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).