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_aAustin, Granville. _918231 |
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_aNew Delhi: _bOxford University Press, _c1999. |
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505 | _aPt. I. The Great Constitutional Themes Emerge, 1950-66 -- 1. Settling into Harness -- 2. Free Speech, Liberty and Public Order -- 3. The Social Revolution and the First Amendment -- 4. The Rights and the Revolution: More Property Amendments -- 5. The Judiciary: 'Quite Untouchable' -- 6. Making and Preserving a Nation -- Pt. II. The Great Constitutional Confrontation: Judicial versus Parliamentary Supremacy, 1967-73 -- 7. Indira Gandhi: In Context and in Power -- 8. The Golak Nath Inheritance -- 9. Two Catalytic Defeats -- 10. Radical Constitutional Amendments -- 11. Redeeming the Web: The Kesavananda Bharati Case -- 12. A 'Grievous Blow': The Supersession of Judges -- Pt. III. Democracy Rescued Or the Constitution Subverted?: The Emergency and the Forty-second Amendment, 1975-7 -- 13. 26 June 1975 -- 14. Closing the Circle -- 15. The Judiciary Under Pressure -- 16. Preparing for Constitutional Change -- 17. The Forty-Second Amendment: Sacrificing Democracy to Power -- Pt. IV. The Janata Interlude: Democracy Restored -- 18. Indira Gandhi Defeated -- Janata Forms a Government -- 19. Restoring Democratic Governance -- 20. Governing Under the Constitution -- 21. The Punishment that Failed -- 22. A Government Dies -- Pt. V. Indira Gandhi Returns -- 23. Ghosts of Governments Past -- 24. The Constitution Strengthened and Weakened -- 25. Judicial Reform or Harassment? -- 26. Turbulence in Federal Relations -- Pt. VI. The Inseparable Twins: National Unity and Integrity and the Machinery of Federal Relations -- 27. Terminology and its Perils -- 28. The Governor's 'Acutely Controversial' Role -- 29. New Delhi's Long Arm -- 30. Coordinating Mechanisms: How 'Federal'? -- Pt. VII. Conclusion -- 31. A Nation's Progress. | ||
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