India's communal constitution: law, religion, and the making of a people
This book speaks to debates on law, constitutionalism, and the contested terrain of political identity in modern India. Set against the overwhelmingly liberal design of the Indian Constitution, the book demonstrates a tendency in the Constitution and its practice to identify the Indian people in par...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY
Cambridge University Press
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: John, Mathew, India's communal constitution : law, religion, and the making of a people] (2025) (Bhat, Alam)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
India
/ Constitutional law
/ Communalism
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| Further subjects: | B
Communalism (India)
B Constitutional Law (India) B Minorities Legal status, laws, etc (India) B Equality before the law (India) B Religion And Law (India) B Caste (India) B India Social conditions B India Politics and government |
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| Summary: | This book speaks to debates on law, constitutionalism, and the contested terrain of political identity in modern India. Set against the overwhelmingly liberal design of the Indian Constitution, the book demonstrates a tendency in the Constitution and its practice to identify the Indian people in parochial and communal terms. This tendency is identified as India's Communal Constitution and its imprint on contemporary constitutional practice is illustrated by drawing on the constitutional practice as it addresses religious freedom, personal law, minority rights and the identification of caste groups. Thus, casting the Constitution and its practice as a field of contest, the aspiration to define the Indian people as a community of individual citizens is brought face to face with its antagonists. The most significant of these antagonists is the tendency to cast the Indian people as a collection of communities which this book examines and details as India's Communal Constitution |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Aug 2023) |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 147 pages), digital, PDF file(s) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-009-31772-6 |
