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Constitutional Democracy in India (Hardcover)
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Constitutional Democracy in India (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian Politics
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Constitutional democracy is both a structure of governance and a
way of providing an ideological perspective on governance. The 1950
Constitution of India established constitutional democracy in India
and the narrative of the rise and consolidation of constitutional
democracy in India cannot be understood without comprehending the
politico-ideological processes that consolidated simultaneously
both colonialism and constitutional liberalism. This book examines
the processes leading to constitutionalizing India and challenges
the conventional idea that the Constitution of India is a borrowed
doctrine. A careful study of the processes reveals that the 1950
Constitution was the culmination of an ideational battle that had
begun with the consolidation of the British Enlightenment
philosophy in the early days of British paramountcy in India. The
book therefore argues that constitutionalizing endeavour in India
had a clear imprint of ideas which had its root in this philosophy.
The study reveals a striking continuity of the same kind of
ideological sentiments when the nationalists devised their own
constitutionalizing design, visible in the 1928 Motilal Nehru
report and which reappeared in the 1945 Sapru Committee report.
Deviating from the conventional study of constitutional evolution
of a polity, which is generally legalistic, this book explores the
processes since the beginning of colonial rule in India which led
to the conceptualization of constitutional democracy in a milieu
engaging with arguments formulated by James and JS Mill. A detailed
analysis of the roots of constitutional and political liberalism in
India, this book sheds light on the material surrounding India's
constitutional development. It will be of interest to scholars in
the field of Indian Political Theory, South Asian Politics and
History.
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