India's Founding Moment: constitution of a most surprising democracy (Record no. 344604)

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International Standard Book Number 9780674247987
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Personal name Khosla, Madhav
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Title India's Founding Moment: constitution of a most surprising democracy
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Massachusetts
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Harvard University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2020
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Summary, etc. Britain's justification for colonial rule in India stressed the impossibility of Indian self-govern ment. 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.<br/><br/>Madhav Khosla explores the means India's founders used to foster a democratic ethos. They knew the people would need to learn ways of cit izenship, but the path to education did not lie in rule by a superior class of men, as the Brit ish 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 cen turies of tradition. They crafted a constitutional system that could respond to the problem of de mocratization under the most inhospitable condi tions. On January 26, 1950, the Indian Constitu tion-the longest in the world-came into effect.<br/><br/>More than half of the world's constitutions have been written in the past three decades. Un like the constitutional revolutions of the late eigh teenth century, these contemporary revolutions have occurred in countries characterized by low levels of economic growth and education, where voting populations are deeply divided by race, religion, and ethnicity. And these countries have democratized at once, not gradually. The events and ideas of India's Founding Moment offer a natural reference point for these nations where democracy and constitutionalism have arrived si multaneously, and they remind us of the promise and challenge of self-rule today.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Constitutional history
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Democracy
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