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Constitutionalizing India : an ideational project
"Contrary to the assumption that the 1950 Constitution of India is a verbatim reproduction of the 1935 Government of India Act, the book pursues the argument that it is an outcome of ideational battle since the beginning of institutionalized British rule in India in the mid-eighteenth century....
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N.Delhi
Oxford University Press India
2018
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Table of Contents:
- British liberals and the initial impetus towards reorganizing the Indian socio-political order
- Nationalist liberals and the advent of liberal thought
- Radical liberals and the reimagining of the 'nation' through politics
- Princely states and the nationalists' constitutionalizing endeavour
- Major colonial designs towards constitutionalizing India
- Major nationalist initiatives towards constitutionalizing India
- Mahatma Gandhi's alternative conceptualization of liberal constitutionalism
- The Constituent Assemly and its role in articulating a distinct response
- The doctrine of basic structure and the reinforcement of constitutional liberalism in post-independent India.