Legalizing the revolution : India and the constitution of the postcolony /
"Anticolonial movements of the twentieth century generated audacious ideas of freedom. Following decolonization, the challenge was to give an institutional form to those ideas. Through an original account of India's constitution making, Legalizing the Revolution explores the promises, chal...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2024.
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| Series: | South Asia in the social sciences ;
24. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : decolonization and constitution
- The anticolonial movement
- Transformations
- They, the people
- The constitutent administrator
- Democracy and parliamentarism
- Rights and repression
- Property and labour
- Judiciary and lawyers
- Conclusion : postcolonial afterlives of law and revolution
- Epilogue : the biographies of the Indian Constitution,