Working a democratic constitution : the Indian experience / Granville Austin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Austin, Granville.

Contributor:

Charles H. Maxson Fund.

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--Politics and government--1947-.

India.

Politics and government.

Constitutional history--India.

Constitutional history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 771 pages.)

Manufacture:

2000.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

System Details:

text file

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 670-698) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles H. Maxson Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Austin, Granville. Working a democratic constitution.

ISBN:

9780199080397

0199080399

Publisher Number:

99977334022

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.