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082			_a 342.5409 ROH
100			_aAlva, Rohan J
245			_aA Constitution to Keep: _bSedition and Free Speech in Modern India _cRohan J.Alva
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aHaryana _bHarper Collins India _c2023
300			_a371p.
500			_aWhen 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.
650			_aSedition
650			_aFree Speech
942			_cBK
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