par Khosla, Madhav
Harvard University Press
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Disponible - 954-75 KHO
Niveau 2 - Histoire
India's founding moment : the constitution of a most surprising democracy
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Khosla, Madhav
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Résumé
Britain’s justification for colonial rule in India stressed the impossibility of Indian self-government. And the empire did its best to ensure this was the case, impoverishing Indian subjects and doing little to improve their socioeconomic reality. So when independence came, the cultivation of democratic citizenship was a foremost challenge. Madhav Khosla explores the means India’s founders used to foster a democratic ethos. They knew the people would need to learn ways of citizenship, but the path to education did not lie in rule by a superior class of men, as the British insisted. Rather, it rested on the creation of a self-sustaining politics. The makers of the Indian Constitution instituted universal suffrage amid poverty, illiteracy, social heterogeneity, and centuries of tradition. They crafted a constitutional system that could respond to the problem of democratization under the most inhospitable conditions. On January 26, 1950, the Indian Constitution—the longest in the world—came into effect.
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Date
- 2020
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Langues
- Anglais
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Description matérielle
- 240 p.
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ISBN
- 9780674980877
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Indice
- 954-75 Péninsule indienne de 1885 à 1947
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Origine de la notice:
- BPI
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Disponible - 954-75 KHO
Niveau 2 - Histoire
