Author: Suchinta Bhattacharya Publisher: Gyan Publishing House ISBN: 9788178351865 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 186
Book Description
The present book is an inquiry and also research finding into the contemporary constitutional crisis in India. This will make one aware not only of the weakness of the present model of parliamentary system responsible for electoral corruption, defection and constitutional bargaining but also of the way that the presidential model will effectively plug the shortcomings and defects inherent in our system of governance.In short, the book is a study of the Indian Constitution in the proper historical perspective a study punctuated by a highly provocative and yet refreshing analysis.The author very earnestly pleads for the widening of our mental horizon and to think more in terms of national interest rather than petty party politics.
Author: Madhav Khosla Publisher: ISBN: 0674980875 Category : Constitutional history Languages : en Pages : 241
Book Description
"How did the founders of the most populous democratic nation in the world meet the problem of establishing a democracy after the departure of foreign rule? The justification for British imperial rule had stressed the impossibility of Indian self-government. At the heart of India's founding moment, in which constitution-making and democratization occurred simultaneously, lay the question of how to implement democracy in an environment regarded as unqualified for its existence. India's founders met this challenge in direct terms-the people, they acknowledged, had to be educated to create democratic citizens. But the path to education lay not in being ruled by a superior class of men but rather in the very creation of a self-sustaining politics. Universal suffrage was instituted amidst poverty, illiteracy, social heterogeneity, and centuries of tradition. Under the guidance of B. R. Ambedkar, Indian lawmakers crafted a constitutional system that could respond to the problem of democratization under the most inhospitable of conditions. On January 26, 1950, the Indian constitution-the longest in the world-came into effect. More than half of the world's constitutions have been written in the past three decades. Unlike the constitutional revolutions of the late-eighteenth century, these contemporary revolutions have occurred in countries that are characterized by low levels of economic growth and education; are divided by race, religion, and ethnicity; and have democratized at once, rather than gradually. The Indian founding is a natural reference point for such constitutional moments-when democracy, constitutionalism, and modernity occur simultaneously"--