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India's Constitutional Identity ideological beliefs and preferences
Preface Introduction Part A: Conceptualizing Constitutional Identity in India: Intellectual Antecedents 1. Constitutional Identity: the British liberal inputs 2. Constitutional Identity: the nationalist inputs Part B: Comprehending Constitutional Identity: a constantly shifting and restructured phenomenon 3. Politico-Ideological Issues 4. Politico-Ideological Structures Part C: Reinforcing Constitutional Identity: judicial intervention 5. Challenges to Constitutional Identity: the Doctrine of Basic Structure of the Constitution 6. Constitutional Constructivism and Justiciable Designs of Governance: rearticulating constitutional identity Conclusion Bibliography
Biography
Bidyut Chakrabarty is Vice-Chancellor of Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. He is the author of numerous books on Indian Politics and Gandhi. His most recent monograph is Localizing Governance in India, also published by Routledge (2017). His research interests include Public Administration, Indian Politics, Indian Political Thought and Movement and the Indian Nationalist Movement.
