Social Change and Political Discourse in India

This volume explores the political dynamic of the state structures of contemporary India as products of the evolution from the colonial and post-colonial era. Differing political and constitutional aspects of state formation are explored.

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This volume explores the political dynamic of the state structures of contemporary India as products of the evolution from the colonial and post-colonial era. Differing political and constitutional aspects of state formation in India are explored against a backcloth of the historic and dominant role played by the Indian National Congress in the independence struggle and the assumption of power by the Congress Party at Independence. The principal conclusion to which the contributors lead stems from the failure, by and large, of the Constitution to deliver on the promises contained in its provisions in such crucial spheres of politics as the relations between the Centre and the States, the relations between the bureaucracy and elected executives at various levels of government, access to opportunities for deprived sections of society, and removal of gender inequalities and oppression.