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100			_aDasgupta, Sandipto _9751812
245			_aLegalizing he Revolution: India& the constitution of the postcolony
260			_aUnited Kingdom _bCambridge University Press _c2024
300			_axvii, 490p. _bIncludes notes and index
520			_aAnticolonial movements of the twentieth century generated ambitious ideas of freedom. Following decolonization, the challenge was to give an institutional form to those ideas. Through an original account of India's constitution making, Legalizing the Revolution explores the promises, challenges, and contradictions of that task. In contrast to derived templates, Dasgupta theorizes the distinctively postcolonial constitution through an innovative synthesis of the history of decolonization and constitutional theory. The book traces the contentious transition from the tumult of popular anticolonial politics to the ordered calculus of postcolonial governance; and then explains how major institutions – parliament, judiciary, rights, property – were formed by that foundational tension. A major contribution to postcolonial political theory, the book excavates the unrealized futures of decolonization. At the same time, through a critical account of the making of the postcolonial constitutional order, it offers keys to understanding the present crisis of that order, including and especially in India.
650			_aDecolonization -- India -- History -- 20th century _9751813
650			_aConstitutional history -- India _9751814
650			_aConstitutional law -- India _9751815
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