A Constitution to Keep: (Record no. 696675)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9789356296657
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 342.5409 ROH
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Alva, Rohan J
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title A Constitution to Keep:
Sub Title Sedition and Free Speech in Modern India
Statement of responsibility, etc Rohan J.Alva
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Haryana
Name of publisher Harper Collins India
Year of publication 2023
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages 371p.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note When we think of the Indian Constitution, we think of the glorious chapter on fundamental rights which guarantees paramount civil liberties such as freedom of speech. But there is also a tension, because freedom of speech is compelled to co-exist with laws such as sedition - contained in Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). In 2021, numerous individuals petitioned the Supreme Court to take sedition off the law books. But, what is sedition? What is its provenance? How was sedition used in colonial India against nationalist leaders? Is there any constitutional justification for its continuance? In A Constitution to Keep, Rohan Alva answers these timely and relevant questions which every Indian should be asking. The book also makes a case for why political speech must be constitutionally protected and how the Supreme Court can do this while ensuring the purity of political discourse.
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Topical Term Sedition
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Topical Term Free Speech
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        Dept. of Law Dept. of Law 07/08/2023 342.5409 ROH 05/09/2023 Book