The Indian Constituent Assembly

Deliberations on Democracy
Herausgeber: Bhatia, Udit

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this volume propose a range of methodological perspectives from which these critical debates might be read. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, they explore themes such as party politics, ideas of rights, including caste and minority rights, social justice and the philosophy of free speech.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781138224827
• ISBN-10: 1138224820
• Artikelnr.: 48736052

Autorenporträt

Udit Bhatia is Lecturer in Political Theory at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, UK. He is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford, and his research interests lie at the intersections of democratic theory, political representation and social epistemology. He is currently examining the normative case against exclusion of persons from democratic citizenship on the basis of epistemic inferiority.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. "We the People?": Politics and the Conundrum of Framing a
Constitution on the Eve of Decolonization 2. Conflict not Consensus:
Towards a Political Economy of the Making of the Indian Constitution3.
Pride and Prejudice in Austin's Cornerstone: Passions in the Constituent
Assembly of India 4. The Antecedents of Social Rights in India 5. The
Conservative Constitution: Freedom of Speech and the Constituent Assembly
Debates 6. Freedom of Speech in the Early Constitution: A Study of the
Constitution (First Amendment) Bill 7. Between Inequality and Identity: The
Indian Constituent Assembly Debates and Religious Difference, 1946-1950 8.
'We the People': Seamless Webs and Social Revolution in India's Constituent
Assembly Debates 9. India's Republican Moment