Khosla, Madhav
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자료유형 | E-BOOK |
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서명/저자사항 | India's founding moment : the constitution of a most surprising democracy/ Madhav Khosla. |
개인저자 | Khosla, Madhav,author. |
발행사항 | Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2020. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource. |
기타형태 저록 | Print version: 9780674980877 0674980875 |
ISBN | 9780674245709 0674245709 |
서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
내용주기 | Introduction: The Indian Problem -- The grammar of constitutionalism -- The location of power -- Identity and representation -- Conclusion: Constitutional democracy today. |
요약 | "How did the founders of the most populous democratic nation in the world meet the problem of establishing a democracy after the departure of foreign rule? The justification for British imperial rule had stressed the impossibility of Indian self-government. At the heart of India's founding moment, in which constitution-making and democratization occurred simultaneously, lay the question of how to implement democracy in an environment regarded as unqualified for its existence. India's founders met this challenge in direct terms-the people, they acknowledged, had to be educated to create democratic citizens. But the path to education lay not in being ruled by a superior class of men but rather in the very creation of a self-sustaining politics. Universal suffrage was instituted amidst poverty, illiteracy, social heterogeneity, and centuries of tradition. Under the guidance of B. R. Ambedkar, Indian lawmakers crafted a constitutional system that could respond to the problem of democratization under the most inhospitable of conditions. On January 26, 1950, the Indian constitution-the longest in the world-came into effect. More than half of the world's constitutions have been written in the past three decades. Unlike the constitutional revolutions of the late-eighteenth century, these contemporary revolutions have occurred in countries that are characterized by low levels of economic growth and education; are divided by race, religion, and ethnicity; and have democratized at once, rather than gradually. The Indian founding is a natural reference point for such constitutional moments-when democracy, constitutionalism, and modernity occur simultaneously"-- |
해제 | Provided by publisher. |
주제명(개인명) | Ambedkar, B. R.(Bhimrao Ramji), -- 1891-1956. Ambedkar, B. R.(Bhimrao Ramji), -- 1891-1956. -- fast -- |
주제명(단체명) | India. --Constitution. |
주제명 (통일서명) | Constitution (India) --fast |
주제명(지명) | India --Politics and government --1947- India. --fast |
일반주제명 | Constitutional history --India. Democratization --India --History --20th century. Democracy --India --History --20th century. Constitutional history. Democracy. Democratization. Politics and government. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy |
언어 | 영어 |
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