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Working a democratic constitution : the Indian experience/ Granville Austin

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: ix,771pISBN:
  • 9780195648881
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.95409 AUS/W
Contents:
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.
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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.

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