India's Constitutional Identity: Ideological Beliefs and Preferences

ISBN-13: 9781138580701 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 238 str.

Bidyut Chakrabarty

Opis

An analysis of selective aspects of India’s constitutional identity, this book provides an analytical account of the changing and changed texture of India’s constitutional identity bearing in mind the historical context in which it is articulated.

Spis treści

Preface  Introduction  Part A: Conceptualizing Constitutional Identity in India: Intellectual Antecedents  1. Constitutional Identity: the British liberal inputs  2. Constitutional Identity: the nationalist inputs  Part B: Comprehending Constitutional Identity: a constantly shifting and restructured phenomenon  3. Politico-Ideological Issues  4. Politico-Ideological Structures  Part C: Reinforcing Constitutional Identity: judicial intervention  5. Challenges to Constitutional Identity: the Doctrine of Basic Structure of the Constitution  6. Constitutional Constructivism and Justiciable Designs of Governance: rearticulating constitutional identity  Conclusion  Bibliography

O autorze

Bidyut Chakrabarty is Vice-Chancellor of Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal, 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). His research interests include Public Administration, Indian Politics, Indian Political Thought and Movement and the Indian Nationalist Movement.