Politics and ethics of the Indian Constitution
edited by Rajeev Bhargava.
- New Delhi : Oxford, 2010.
- 409 p.
Table of Contents; Acknowledgements Rajeev Bhargava: Introduction: Outline of a Political Theory of the Indian Constitution Section I Chapter 1. Bhikhu Parekh: The Constitution as a Statement of Indian Identity Chapter 2. Thomas Pantham: Gandhi and the Constitution: Parliamentary Swaraj and Village Swaraj Chapter 3. Peter Ronald deSouza: Institutional Visions and Sociological Imaginations: The Debate on Panchayati Raj Chapter 4. Upendra Baxi: Outline of a 'Theory of Practice' of Indian Constitutionalism Chapter 5. Aditya Nigam: A Text Without Author: Locating the Constituent Assembly as an Event Section II Chapter 6. Suhas Palshikar: The Indian State: Constitution and Beyond Chapter 7. Valerian Rodrigues: Citizenship and the Indian Constitution Chapter 8. Nivedita Menon: Citizenship and the Passive Revolution: Interpreting the First Amendment Chapter 9. Sanjay Palshikar: Democracy and Constitutionalism Chapter 10. Gopal Guru: Constitutional Justice: Positional and Cultural Section III Chapter 11. Christophe Jaffrelot: Containing the Lower Castes: The Constitutent Assembly and the Reservation Policy Chapter 12. Ashok Acharya: Affirmative Action for Disadvantaged Groups: A Cross-constitutional Study of India and the US Section IV Chapter 13. Gurpreet Mahajan: Religion and the Indian Constitution: Questions of Separation and Equality Chapter 14. Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Passion and Constraint: Courts and the Regulation of Religious Meaning Chapter 15. Shefali Jha: Rights versus Representation: Defending Minority Interests in the Constituent Assembly Chapter 16. Rochana Bajpai: Minority Representation and the Making of the Indian Constitution Notes on Contributors Index