Politics and ethics of the Indian constitution/ 
edited by Rajeev Bhargava 
 - New Delhi:  Oxford University Press,  2008. 
 - vi, 409 p. ;  22 cm. 
 - (Oxford India paperbacks) .
<br/><br/>Section I. The Constitution as a statement of Indian identity / Bhikhu Parekh --<br/>Gandhi and the Constitution : Parliamentary Swaraj and village Swaraj / Thomas Pantham --<br/>Institutional visions and sociological imaginations: the debate on Panchayati Raj / Peter Ronald deSouza --<br/>Outline of a theory of practice of Indian constitutionalism / Upendra Baxi --<br/>A text without author : locating the constituent assembly as event / Aditya Nigam ---<br/>Section II. The Indian state : Constitution and beyond / Suhas Palshikar --<br/>Citizenship and the Indian Constitution / Valenian Rodrigues --<br/>Citizenship and the passive revolution : interpreting the First Amendment / Nivedita Menon --<br/>Democracy and Constitutionalism / Sanjay Palshikar --<br/>Constitutional justice : positional and cultural / Gopal Guru ---<br/>Section III. Religion and the Indian Constitution : questions of separation and equality / Gurpreet Mahajan --<br/>Passion and constraint: courts and the regulation of religious meaning / Pratap Bhanu Mehta --<br/>Rights versus representation: defending minority interests in the constituent assembly / Shefali Jha --<br/>Minority representation and the making of the Indian Constitution / Rochana Bajpai. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0195692551 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Constitutional law<br/>Political ethics<br/>Political participation<br/>Political science
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320  / BHA/P