India - Politics & Government, Indian History - General & Miscellaneous, Foreign Constitutions, Indian Law, General & Miscellaneous - Politics & Government

India's Living Constitution

Name: India's Living Constitution
Author: Zoya Hasan
ISBN: 9781843311362

by Zoya Hasan, Eswaran Sridharan (Editor), R. Sudarshan

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Overview

This volume examines the career of constitutional-political ideas (implicitly of Western origin) in the text of the Indian Constitution or implicit within it, as well as in actual political practice in the country over the past half-century.

Synopsis

An examination of the ideas, practices and controversies surrounding the Indian Constitution.

About the Author, Zoya Hasan

Zoya Hasan is Professor of Political Science, Centre for Political Studies, and Director of the Women's Studies Programme, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

E. Sridharan is Academic Director of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India, New Delhi.

R. Sudarshan is Senior Governance Advisor to the UNDP in Indonesia, and has worked for the UNDP since 1991, heading divisions in the India Office dealing with public policy and human development.