Legalizing the Revolution

India and the Constitution of the Postcolony

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvSandipto Dasgupta,New York) Dasgupta, Sandipto (New School for Social Research

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Anticolonial movements of the twentieth century generated ambitious ideas of freedom. Following decolonization, the challenge was to give an institutional form to those ideas. Through an original account of India's constitution making, Legalizing the Revolution explores the promises, challenges, and contradictions of that task. In contrast to derived templates, Dasgupta theorizes the distinctively postcolonial constitution through an innovative synthesis of the history of decolonization and constitutional theory. The book traces the contentious transition from the tumult of popular anticolonial politics to the ordered calculus of postcolonial governance; and then explains how major institutions – parliament, judiciary, rights, property – were formed by that foundational tension. A major contribution to postcolonial political theory, the book excavates the unrealized futures of decolonization. At the same time, through a critical account of the making of the postcolonial constitutional order, it offers keys to understanding the present crisis of that order, including and especially in India.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-10-24
Mått150 x 228 x 30 mm
Vikt650 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSouth Asia in the Social Sciences
Antal sidor280
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009525244

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Introduction: Decolonization and Constitution; Part I. Revolution without a Revolution: 1. The Anticolonial Movement; 2. Transformations; Part II. Authors: 3. They, The People; 4. The Constituent Administrator; Part III. Institutions: 5. Democracy and Parliamentarism; 6. Rights and Repression; 7. Property and Labour; 8. Judiciary and Lawyers; Conclusion: The Postcolonial Afterlives of Law and Revolution; Epilogue: The Biographies of the Indian Constitution; Notes; Index.

'In this important contribution to political and constitutional theory, Sandipto Dasgupta tracks the distinctive character and logic of the postcolonial constitution. Rather than closing a revolution, constitutions in the decolonizing world were designed to facilitate the revolution to come. Examining the antinomies of this 'transformational constitutionalism' to prompt a wider reconsideration of the ends of constitutionalism, Legalizing the Revolution models postcolonial political theory at its best.' Adom Getachew, University of Chicago