Indian constitution and polity/ edited by R.V. R. Chandrasekahra Rao and V.S. Prasad

Contemporary discourse on democracy goes well beyond formalistic constitutional analysis and descriptive institutional study. This volume, though entitled Indian Constitution and Polity, reflects the contemporary trend in often pitching the nature and scope of analysis beyond the conventional categories. Emanating from members of high judicial, academic and civil service professions, the challenge of ideas these lectures pose is as wide ranging as it is unconventional. This exercise is are themselves capable of discourse.

proof that the learned professions generating heterodoxy in terms of This volume affords the public an insight into the origins, ideology, mind-frames and the struggles involved in the transformation of the constitutional framework to the demands of the polity. To be sure, none can dare assert that optimum transformation had taken place. But, then, an expose of the endeavours, blindfolds, vested interests, and limits to consciousness in the unfolding of the political system within the framework of the constitution is what is sought to be put before the general public. It certainly is not a comprehensive expose, either. Still it should provide a cross-sectional view of the Indian Constitution and the wider polity.