Political Transition and Development Imperatives in India - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1138662518 ISBN 13: 9781138662513

Casa editrice: Routledge India, 2016

Riassunto

This volume explores the transition from colonial to constitutional rule in India, and the various configurations of power and legitimacies that emerged from it. It focuses on the developmental structures and paradigms that provided the circumstances for this transition, and the establishment of the post-colonial state. Different articles interrogate the idea of liberal constitutionalism, the spaces it provides for rights and claims, the assumptions it makes about citizenship and its attendant duties, and the assumptions it further makes about what it can, or has to, become in the particular situation of India.

The book locates these questions in the reconfiguration of society, power, and the economy since the shift in the identity of the state after Independence, and deals with issues of constitution-making in a historical and political setting and its outcomes, especially the centrality of law and legalisms, in shaping civil society. With a companion volume on the transition to a constitutional form of governance and the consequent moulding of the citizens, this book emphasises continuity and change in the context of the movement from the colonial to the constitutional order.

It will be of interest to those in politics, history, South Asian studies, policy studies, and sociology.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Ranabir Samaddar is Director, Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata.

Suhit K. Sen is Senior Researcher, Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge India
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1138662518
• ISBN 13: 9781138662513
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 304
• Redattore: Samaddar Ranabir, Sen Suhit K.
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania