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9780415522892

Political Transition and Development Imperatives in India

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415522892

  • ISBN10:

    0415522897

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2012-04-20
  • Publisher: Routledge India

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This volume explores the transition from colonial to constitutional rule in India, and the various configurations of power and legitimacies that emerged from it. It focuses on the developmental structures and paradigms that provided the circumstances for this transition, and the establishment of the post-colonial state. Different articles interrogate the idea of liberal constitutionalism, the spaces it provides for rights and claims, the assumptions it makes about citizenship and its attendant duties, and the assumptions it further makes about what it can, or has to, become in the particular situation of India. The book locates these questions in the reconfiguration of society, power, and the economy since the shift in the identity of the state after Independence, and deals with issues of constitution-making in a historical and political setting and its outcomes, especially the centrality of law and legalisms, in shaping civil society. With a companion volume on the transition to a constitutional form of governance and the consequent moulding of the citizens, this book emphasises continuity and change in the context of the movement from the colonial to the constitutional order. It will be of interest to those in politics, history, South Asian studies, policy studies, and sociology.

Author Biography

Ranabir Samaddar is Director, Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata. Suhit K. Sen is Senior Researcher, Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsp. vii
Introductionp. 1
The Juridical-Political Route to Norms of Governance
Two Constitutional Tasks: Setting Up the Indian State and the Indian Governmentp. 11
The 'Nehruvian' State, Developmental Imagination, Nationalism, and the Governmentp. 53
The Political Constitution of India: Party and Government, 1946-57p. 86
Paradigms of Inequality, Pathways to Entitlement
Imaginations and Manifestos of the Political Parties on Ideals of Developmental Governancep. 121
Who will be able to Access the Provisions of Liberty?: Ability, Disability, and the Interrogation of Normsp. 159
Whose Security, Whose Development?: Lessons from Campaigns against Female Infanticide in Tamil Nadup. 187
Rules of Governance in Developing Rural Indiap. 230
Bibliographyp. 271
About the Editorsp. 289
Notes on Contributorsp. 290
Indexp. 291
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