Constitutional Democracy in India

Informationen zum Autor 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). Zusammenfassung This book examines the processes leading to constitutionalizing India and challenges the conventional idea that the Constitution of India is a borrowed doctrine. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Bidyut Chakrabarty, Bidyut (Delhi University Chakrabarty, Bidyut (University of Delhi Chakrabarty
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.01.2018
• EAN: 9781138551886
• ISBN: 978-1-138-55188-6
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, India, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy, Political science and theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General