India's Communal Constitution - Law, Religion, and the Making of a People (Hardcover)

This book speaks to debates on law, constitutionalism, and the contested terrain of political identity in modern India. Set against the overwhelmingly liberal design of the Indian Constitution, the book demonstrates a tendency in the Constitution and its practice to identify the Indian people in parochial and communal terms. This tendency is identified as India's Communal Constitution and its imprint on contemporary constitutional practice is illustrated by drawing on the constitutional practice as it addresses religious freedom, personal law, minority rights and the identification of caste groups. Thus, casting the Constitution and its practice as a field of contest, the aspiration to define the Indian people as a community of individual citizens is brought face to face with its antagonists. The most significant of these antagonists is the tendency to cast the Indian people as a collection of communities which this book examines and details as India's Communal Constitution.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2023
Authors:	Mathew, John,
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-1-00-931775-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Constitutional & administrative law > General
LSN:	1-00-931775-X
Barcode:	9781009317757

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