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    Politics and ethics of the Indian constitution / edited by Rajeev Bhargava.

    • Title:Politics and ethics of the Indian constitution / edited by Rajeev Bhargava.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Bhargava, Rajeev.
    • Published/Created:New Delhi ; Toronto : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Constitutional law--India.
      Constitutional law--Moral and ethical aspects.
    • Description:vi, 409 p. ; 22 cm.
    • Terms governing use:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • Summary:Contributed articles presented at a conference on the political philosophy of the Indian constitution held in Goa in Sept. 2001.
    • ISBN:9780195692556
      0195692551
    • Contents:Introduction. Outline of a Political Theory of the Indian Constitution / Rajeev Bhargava
      1. Constitution as a Statement of Indian Identity / Bhikhu Parekh
      2. Gandhi and the Constitution: Parliamentary Swaraj and Village Swaraj / Thomas Pantham
      3. Institutional Visions and Sociological Imaginations: The Debate on Panchayati Raj / Peter Ronald deSouza
      4. Outline of a 'Theory of Practice' of Indian Constitutionalism / Upendra Baxi
      5. Text Without Author: Locating the Constituent Assembly as Event / Aditya Nigam
      6. Indian State: Constitution and Beyond / Suhas Palshikar
      7. Citizenship and the Indian Constitution / Valerian Rodrigues
      8. Citizenship and the Passive Revolution: Interpreting the First Amendment / Nivedita Menon
      9. Democracy and Constitutionalism / Sanjay Palshikar
      10. Constitutional Justice: Positional and Cultural / Gopal Guru
      11. Containing the Lower Castes: The Constituent Assembly and the Reservation Policy / Christophe Jaffrelot
      12. Affirmative Action for Disadvantaged Groups: A Cross-constitutional Study of India and the US / Ashok Acharya
      13. Religion and the Indian Constitution: Questions of Separation and Equality / Gurpreet Mahajan
      14. Passion and Constraint: Courts and the Regulation of Religious Meaning / Pratap Bhanu Mehta
      15. Rights versus Representation Defending Minority Interests in the Constituent Assembly / Shefali Jha
      16. Minority Representation and the Making of the Indian Constitution / Rochana Bajpai.
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