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Politics and ethics of the Indian constitution
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Politics and ethics of the Indian constitution

Author: Rajeev Bhargava
Publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Contributed articles presented at a conference on the political philosophy of the Indian constitution held in Goa in Sept. 2001.
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Genre/Form: Goa (Stadt, 2001)
Kongress
Material Type: Conference publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Rajeev Bhargava
ISBN: 9780195692556 0195692551 9780198063551 0198063555
OCLC Number: 184825623
Description: vi, 408 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Section I. The Constitution as a statement of Indian identity / Bhikhu Parekh --
Gandhi and the Constitution : Parliamentary Swaraj and village Swaraj / Thomas Pantham --
Institutional visions and sociological imaginations: the debate on Panchayati Raj / Peter Ronald deSouza --
Outline of a theory of practice of Indian constitutionalism / Upendra Baxi --
A text without author : locating the constituent assembly as event / Aditya Nigam. Section II. The Indian state : Constitution and beyond / Suhas Palshikar --
Citizenship and the Indian Constitution / Valenian Rodrigues --
Citizenship and the passive revolution : interpreting the First Amendment / Nivedita Menon --
Democracy and Constitutionalism / Sanjay Palshikar --
Constitutional justice : positional and cultural / Gopal Guru. Section III. Religion and the Indian Constitution : questions of separation and equality / Gurpreet Mahajan --
Passion and constraint: courts and the regulation of religious meaning / Pratap Bhanu Mehta --
Rights versus representation: defending minority interests in the constituent assembly / Shefali Jha --
Minority representation and the making of the Indian Constitution / Rochana Bajpai.
Responsibility: edited by Rajeev Bhargava.
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This volume extricates the philosophy latent in the Indian constitution, as distinct from the traditional legal-institutional studies. It critically analyses the various aspects of the Constitution.  Read more...

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