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020			_a9789353026844
082			_a342.5402 BHA-G
100			_aBhatia, Gautam
245			_aTransformative constitution : _ba radical biography in nine acts / _cGautam Bhatia
260			_aIndia _bHarper Collins _c2019
300			_a499 p.
365			_aINR _b699.00.
500			_aWe think of the Indian Constitution as a founding document, embodying a moment of profound transformation from being ruled to becoming a nation of free and equal citizenship. Yet the working of the Constitution over the last seven decades has often failed to fulfil that transformative promise. Not only have successive Parliaments failed to repeal colonial-era laws that are inconsistent with the principles of the Constitution, but constitutional challenges to these laws have also failed before the courts. Indeed, in numerous cases, the Supreme Court has used colonial-era laws to cut down or weaken the fundamental rights. The Transformative Constitution by Gautam Bhatia draws on pre-Independence legal and political history to argue that the Constitution was intended to transform not merely the political status of Indians from subjects to citizens, but also the social relationships on which legal and political structures rested. He advances a novel vision of the Constitution, and of constitutional interpretation, which is faithful to its text, structure and history, and above all to its overarching commitment to political and social.
650			_aIndia
650			_aConstitutional law
999			_c53573 _d53573