Politics and ethics of the Indian Constitution:

Contributed articles presented at a conference on the political philosophy of the Indian constitution held in Goa in Sept. 2001

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press 2008
Edition:1. publ.
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:Contributed articles presented at a conference on the political philosophy of the Indian constitution held in Goa in Sept. 2001
Item Description: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
Physical Description:VI, 409 S. 23 cm
ISBN:9780195692556
0195692551

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