Title: Politics and ethics of the Indian constitution /
Authors: Bhargava, Rajeev.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Constitutional law Moral and ethical aspects India.; Constitutional law Political aspects India.; Constitutional history India
Abstract: Contributed articles presented at a conference on the political philosophy of the Indian constitution held in Goa in Sept. 2001.
Contents: Section I. The Constitution as a statement of Indian identity / Bhikhu Parekh -- Gandhi and the Constitution : Parliamentary Swaraj and village Swaraj / Thomas Pantham -- Institutional visions and sociological imaginations: the debate on Panchayati Raj / Peter Ronald deSouza -- Outline of a theory of practice of Indian constitutionalism / Upendra Baxi -- A text without author : locating the constituent assembly as event / Aditya Nigam -- Section II. The Indian state : Constitution and beyond / Suhas Palshikar -- Citizenship and the Indian Constitution / Valenian Rodrigues -- Citizenship and the passive revolution : interpreting the First Amendment / Nivedita Menon -- Democracy and Constitutionalism / Sanjay Palshikar -- Constitutional justice : positional and cultural / Gopal Guru -- Section III. Religion and the Indian Constitution : questions of separation and equality / Gurpreet Mahajan -- Passion and constraint: courts and the regulation of religious meaning / Pratap Bhanu Mehta -- Rights versus representation: defending minority interests in the constituent assembly / Shefali Jha -- Minority representation and the making of the Indian Constitution / Rochana Bajpai.