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India's founding moment : the constitution of a most surprising democracy /
"How did the founders of the most populous democratic nation in the world meet the problem of establishing a democracy after the departure of foreign rule? The justification for British imperial rule had stressed the impossibility of Indian self-government. At the heart of India's founding...
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| Taal: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2020.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a India's founding moment : |b the constitution of a most surprising democracy / |c Madhav Khosla. |
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| 264 | 1 | |a Cambridge, Massachusetts : |b Harvard University Press, |c 2020. | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: The Indian Problem -- The grammar of constitutionalism -- The location of power -- Identity and representation -- Conclusion: Constitutional democracy today. | |
| 520 | |a "How did the founders of the most populous democratic nation in the world meet the problem of establishing a democracy after the departure of foreign rule? The justification for British imperial rule had stressed the impossibility of Indian self-government. At the heart of India's founding moment, in which constitution-making and democratization occurred simultaneously, lay the question of how to implement democracy in an environment regarded as unqualified for its existence. India's founders met this challenge in direct terms-the people, they acknowledged, had to be educated to create democratic citizens. But the path to education lay not in being ruled by a superior class of men but rather in the very creation of a self-sustaining politics. Universal suffrage was instituted amidst poverty, illiteracy, social heterogeneity, and centuries of tradition. Under the guidance of B. R. Ambedkar, Indian lawmakers crafted a constitutional system that could respond to the problem of democratization under the most inhospitable of conditions. On January 26, 1950, the Indian constitution-the longest in the world-came into effect. More than half of the world's constitutions have been written in the past three decades. Unlike the constitutional revolutions of the late-eighteenth century, these contemporary revolutions have occurred in countries that are characterized by low levels of economic growth and education; are divided by race, religion, and ethnicity; and have democratized at once, rather than gradually. The Indian founding is a natural reference point for such constitutional moments-when democracy, constitutionalism, and modernity occur simultaneously"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Democratization |z India |x History |y 20th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Democracy |z India |x History |y 20th century. | |
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