Working a democratic constitution : the Indian experience/
Austin,Granville
Working a democratic constitution : the Indian experience/ Granville Austin - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. - ix,771p.
Pt. I. The Great Constitutional Themes Emerge, 1950-66 --
1. Settling into Harness --
2. Free Speech, Liberty and Public Order --
3. The Social Revolution and the First Amendment --
4. The Rights and the Revolution: More Property Amendments --
5. The Judiciary: 'Quite Untouchable' --
6. Making and Preserving a Nation -- Pt. II. The Great Constitutional Confrontation: Judicial versus Parliamentary Supremacy, 1967-73 --
7. Indira Gandhi: In Context and in Power --
8. The Golak Nath Inheritance --
9. Two Catalytic Defeats --
10. Radical Constitutional Amendments --
11. Redeeming the Web: The Kesavananda Bharati Case --
12. A 'Grievous Blow': The Supersession of Judges -- Pt. III. Democracy Rescued Or the Constitution Subverted?: The Emergency and the Forty-second Amendment, 1975-7 --
13. 26 June 1975 --
14. Closing the Circle --
15. The Judiciary Under Pressure --
16. Preparing for Constitutional Change --
17. The Forty-Second Amendment: Sacrificing Democracy to Power - Pt. IV. The Janata Interlude: Democracy Restored --
18. Indira Gandhi Defeated --
Janata Forms a Government --
19. Restoring Democratic Governance --
20. Governing Under the Constitution --
21. The Punishment that Failed --
22. A Government Dies -- Pt. V. Indira Gandhi Returns --
23. Ghosts of Governments Past --
24. The Constitution Strengthened and Weakened --
25. Judicial Reform or Harassment? --
26. Turbulence in Federal Relations -- Pt. VI. The Inseparable Twins: National Unity and Integrity and the Machinery of Federal Relations --
27. Terminology and its Perils --
28. The Governor's 'Acutely Controversial' Role --
29. New Delhi's Long Arm --
30. Coordinating Mechanisms: How 'Federal'? -- Pt. VII. Conclusion --
31. A Nation's Progress.
9780195648881
Constitutional history -- India.
India -- Politics and government -- 1947-
India -- Constitutional history.
320.95409 / AUS/W
Working a democratic constitution : the Indian experience/ Granville Austin - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. - ix,771p.
Pt. I. The Great Constitutional Themes Emerge, 1950-66 --
1. Settling into Harness --
2. Free Speech, Liberty and Public Order --
3. The Social Revolution and the First Amendment --
4. The Rights and the Revolution: More Property Amendments --
5. The Judiciary: 'Quite Untouchable' --
6. Making and Preserving a Nation -- Pt. II. The Great Constitutional Confrontation: Judicial versus Parliamentary Supremacy, 1967-73 --
7. Indira Gandhi: In Context and in Power --
8. The Golak Nath Inheritance --
9. Two Catalytic Defeats --
10. Radical Constitutional Amendments --
11. Redeeming the Web: The Kesavananda Bharati Case --
12. A 'Grievous Blow': The Supersession of Judges -- Pt. III. Democracy Rescued Or the Constitution Subverted?: The Emergency and the Forty-second Amendment, 1975-7 --
13. 26 June 1975 --
14. Closing the Circle --
15. The Judiciary Under Pressure --
16. Preparing for Constitutional Change --
17. The Forty-Second Amendment: Sacrificing Democracy to Power - Pt. IV. The Janata Interlude: Democracy Restored --
18. Indira Gandhi Defeated --
Janata Forms a Government --
19. Restoring Democratic Governance --
20. Governing Under the Constitution --
21. The Punishment that Failed --
22. A Government Dies -- Pt. V. Indira Gandhi Returns --
23. Ghosts of Governments Past --
24. The Constitution Strengthened and Weakened --
25. Judicial Reform or Harassment? --
26. Turbulence in Federal Relations -- Pt. VI. The Inseparable Twins: National Unity and Integrity and the Machinery of Federal Relations --
27. Terminology and its Perils --
28. The Governor's 'Acutely Controversial' Role --
29. New Delhi's Long Arm --
30. Coordinating Mechanisms: How 'Federal'? -- Pt. VII. Conclusion --
31. A Nation's Progress.
9780195648881
Constitutional history -- India.
India -- Politics and government -- 1947-
India -- Constitutional history.
320.95409 / AUS/W