The Working of the Indian Constitution (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Sengupta, Arghya; Omita, Goyal

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Indian Constitution has held the country together for 75 years now. This volume demonstrates the Constitution is not a static document and has seen several amendments and interpretations over the years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040035405
• Artikelnr.: 72241373

Autorenporträt

Arghya Sengupta is Founder and Research Director, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, India's premier law and policy think-tank. His areas of research include constitutional law, administrative law and the regulation of the digital economy. He is the author of Independence and Accountability of the Indian Higher Judiciary (2019). He is currently working on a book that explores the origins of the Constitution of India (2023). Prior to founding Vidhi, he studied for his BCL and DPhil as a Rhodes Scholar, and was subsequently a Lecturer in Administrative Law at Pembroke College, Oxford University. Omita Goyal is presently Chief Editor of the IIC Quarterly, Journal of the India International Centre. She started her career in the voluntary sector with the Indian Social Institute, New Delhi. Shortly thereafter, she moved into academic publishing where she has spent close to 40 years. She worked at SAGE Publications India Pvt. Ltd. for 20 years, leaving as General Manager. She took time off to work as a freelance editor for SAGE and other institutions, such as the World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP, Voluntary Health Association of India, Centre for Women's Development Studies, WHO, Institute of Social Studies. The Hague and TERI. In 2005, she was invited by Taylor and Francis to start a social science programme under their social science and humanities imprint, Routledge, as Publishing Director.

Inhaltsangabe

Editorial. Foreword. Introduction PART I: Sovereignty 1. Sovereignty in the
Indian Constitution 2. Friend not Foe: Popular Sovereignty in the Indian
Constitution 3. Sovereignty and Prevalent Morality: Section 377 of the
Indian Penal Code 4. GST and Federal India 5. Development through
Participatory Governance: MGNREGA in Meghalaya 6. The Making of a Sovereign
People PART II: Socialism 7. Socialism in the Indian Constitution 8. Public
Health for All 9. MGNREGA: Towards Realising the Constitutional Objective
of Work for All 10. Early Childhood Care and the Right to Education Act
PART III: Secularism 11. Secularism in the Indian Constitution 12. Secular,
but on its Own Terms 13. Secularism and Indian Elections: A Personal Memoir
14. Communists and the Fulfilment of Secular Promises in West Bengal PART
IV: Democracy 15. Democracy in the Indian Constitution 16. Testing
Democracy in Sasaram17. Constitution, Corporates and the Costs of Democracy
18. Election Commission of India: The Watchdog of Indian Democracy 19. The
Constitution, the Court and Freedom of Media PART V: Republic 20. Republic
in the Indian Constitution 21. The Constitution and Religious Minorities: A
Comparative South Asian Perspective 22. Beyond Rhetoric: Transgender
Persons and Socio-Economic Inclusion 23. Women, Law and the Constitution
24. Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in South India: From
'Backwardness' to 'Poverty' 25. Karnan: Caste and the Constitution in Tamil
Nadu