Politics and ethics of the Indian Constitution (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references and index
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