Legalizing the Revolution India and the Constitution of the Postcolony Dasgupta

Legalizing the RevolutionIndia and the Constitution of the Postcolony\nAuthor(s): Sandipto Dasgupta\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108490481, 978-1108490481\nSynopsis\nAnticolonial 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, p.