Working a democratic constitution : the Indian experience
History of the working of the Indian constitution from 1950-1985
xvii, 771 pages ; 23 cm
9780195648881, 0195648889
43992857
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