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India's founding moment [electronic resource] : the constitution of a most surprising democracy / Madhav Khosla.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 2020.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Indian Problem -- The grammar of constitutionalism -- The location of power -- Identity and representation -- Conclusion: Constitutional democracy today.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Ambedkar, B. R., , 1891-1956.
Ambedkar, B. R., , 1891-1956.
India., Constitution.
Constitution (India)
Constitutional history, India.
Democratization, India, History, 20th century.
Democracy, India, History, 20th century.
Constitutional history.
Democracy.
Democratization.
Politics and government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy
India, Politics and government, 1947-
India.

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