Constitutionalizing India: An Ideational Project

by Bidyut Chakrabarty

Contrary to the assumption that the 1950 Constitution of India is a verbatim reproduction of the 1935 Government of India Act, the book pursues the argument that it is an outcome of ideational battle since the beginning of institutionalized British rule in India in the mid-eighteenth century. Initiated by Edmund Burke, who while impeaching the British ruler of India, Warren Hastings, strongly argued, in a rather paternalistic fashion, for the colonizers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199487626
• ISBN13: 9780199487622
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.3"