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A People's Constitution - The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic (Hardcover)
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A People's Constitution - The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic (Hardcover)
Series: Histories of Economic Life
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It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950, a
document in English created by elite consensus, has had little
influence on India's greater population. Drawing upon the
previously unexplored records of the Supreme Court of India, A
People's Constitution upends this narrative and shows how the
Constitution actually transformed the daily lives of citizens in
profound and lasting ways. This remarkable legal process was led by
individuals on the margins of society, and Rohit De looks at how
drinkers, smugglers, petty vendors, butchers, and prostitutes-all
despised minorities-shaped the constitutional culture. The
Constitution came alive in the popular imagination so much that
ordinary people attributed meaning to its existence, took recourse
to it, and argued with it. Focusing on the use of constitutional
remedies by citizens against new state regulations seeking to
reshape the society and economy, De illustrates how laws and
policies were frequently undone or renegotiated from below using
the state's own procedures. De examines four important cases that
set legal precedents: a Parsi journalist's contestation of new
alcohol prohibition laws, Marwari petty traders' challenge to the
system of commodity control, Muslim butchers' petition against cow
protection laws, and sex workers' battle to protect their right to
practice prostitution. Exploring how the Indian Constitution of
1950 enfranchised the largest population in the world, A People's
Constitution considers the ways that ordinary citizens produced,
through litigation, alternative ethical models of citizenship.
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