Constitutionalizing India : (Record no. 376959)

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fixed length control field 02261cam a2200193 i 4500
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780199487622
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0199487626
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 342.001
Item number BID.C
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Bidyut Chakrabarty.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Constitutionalizing India :
Remainder of title an ideational project /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Bidyut Chakrabarty.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement First edition.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi,
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. OUP,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2018.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xli, 305 pages ;
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-291) and index.
505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note British liberals and the initial impetus towards reorganizing the Indian socio-political order -- Nationalist liberals and the advent of liberal thought -- Radical liberals and the reimagining of the 'nation' through politics -- Princely states and the nationalists' constitutionalizing endeavour -- Major colonial designs towards constitutionalizing India -- Major nationalist initiatives towards constitutionalizing India -- Mahatma Gandhi's alternative conceptualization of liberal constitutionalism -- The Constituent Assemly and its role in articulating a distinct response -- The doctrine of basic structure and the reinforcement of constitutional liberalism in post-independent India.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "Contrary to the assumption that the 1950 Constitution of India is a verbatim reproduction of the 1935 Government of India Act, the book pursues the argument that it is an outcome of ideational battle since the beginning of institutionalized British rule in India in the mid-eighteenth century. Initiated by Edmund Burke, who while impeaching the British ruler of India, Warren Hastings, strongly argued, in a rather paternalistic fashion, for the colonizers to govern India in accordance with the enlightenment values. It was a beginning which was followed as a matter of principle by the successive British administrations in India. The influence gradually became so well-entrenched that Indian nationalists were voluntarily drawn to the values that the Enlightenment Philosophy had transmitted while administering India. It was evident in the ideas of the moderate extremist nationalists, which were also imbibed by Mahatma Gandhi and B.R. Ambedkar when they articulated their vision for an independent India."--
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Constitutional history
Geographic subdivision India.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Book
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