Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony: 23 (South Asia in the Social Sciences, 24) by Dasgupta, Sandipto | Hardcover | Political Science

About this book Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony: 23 (South Asia in the Social Sciences, 24) by Dasgupta, Sandipto published by Cambridge Univ Pr. Key highlights - An innovative synthesis of the history of decolonization and constitutional theory. Contributes to the field of political theory of decolonization; presents an original theory of the Indian constitution as well as the concept of ‘postcolonial constitutionalism’; and offers an appraisal of the crisis of democratic institutions in the Global South. - Theorizes the project of instituting a postcolonial order following decolonization, though an account of the Indian constitution. - Sandipto Dasgupta is Newton International Fellow of the Royal Society and the British Academy. His research interests include constructing a distinct theory of judicial review through a study of the increased activism and intervention of the judiciary in the realm of social rights and policy in the developing world; analyzing the relationship between social power and political power, and consequently the relationship between democracy and social transformation, - by studying the political discourse of land owning farmers; and the intellectual and social history of legal formalism. - Introduction: Decolonization and Constitution; Part I. Revolution without a Revolution: 1. The Anticolonial Movement; 2. Transformations; Part II. Authors: 3. They, The People; 4. The Constituent Administrator; Part III. Institutions: 5. Democracy and Parliamentarism; 6. Rights and Repression; 7. Property and Labour; 8. Judiciary and Lawyers; Conclusion: The Postcolonial Afterlives of Law and Revolution; Epilogue: The Biographies of the Indian Constitution; Notes; Index. Related topics Political Science/World - General.