Legalizing the Revolution
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-49048-1 (ISBN)
Anticolonial movements of the twentieth century generated ambitious ideas of freedom. Following decolonization, the challenge was to give an institutional form to those ideas. Through an original account of India's constitution making, Legalizing the Revolution explores the promises, challenges, and contradictions of that task. In contrast to derived templates, Dasgupta theorizes the distinctively postcolonial constitution through an innovative synthesis of the history of decolonization and constitutional theory. The book traces the contentious transition from the tumult of popular anticolonial politics to the ordered calculus of postcolonial governance; and then explains how major institutions – parliament, judiciary, rights, property – were formed by that foundational tension. A major contribution to postcolonial political theory, the book excavates the unrealized futures of decolonization. At the same time, through a critical account of the making of the postcolonial constitutional order, it offers keys to understanding the present crisis of that order, including and especially in India.
Sandipto Dasgupta is Assistant Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research, New York. 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.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.6.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | South Asia in the Social Sciences |
Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 1-108-49048-4 / 1108490484 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-49048-1 / 9781108490481 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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