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100	1		_aKhosla, Madhav, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aIndia's founding moment : _bThe constitution of a most surprising democracy / _cMadhav Khosla.
263			_a2002
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c2020.
300			_apages cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: The Indian Problem; The grammar of constitutionalism; The location of power; Identity and representation; Conclusion: Constitutional democracy today.
520			_a"How did the founders of the most populous democratic nation in the world meet the problem of establishing a democracy after the departure of foreign rule? The justification for British imperial rule had stressed the impossibility of Indian self-government. At the heart of India's founding moment, in which constitution-making and democratization occurred simultaneously, lay the question of how to implement democracy in an environment regarded as unqualified for its existence. India's founders met this challenge in direct terms-the people, they acknowledged, had to be educated to create democratic citizens. But the path to education lay not in being ruled by a superior class of men but rather in the very creation of a self-sustaining politics. Universal suffrage was instituted amidst poverty, illiteracy, social heterogeneity, and centuries of tradition. Under the guidance of B. R. Ambedkar, Indian lawmakers crafted a constitutional system that could respond to the problem of democratization under the most inhospitable of conditions. On January 26, 1950, the Indian constitution-the longest in the world-came into effect. More than half of the world's constitutions have been written in the past three decades. Unlike the constitutional revolutions of the late-eighteenth century, these contemporary revolutions have occurred in countries that are characterized by low levels of economic growth and education; are divided by race, religion, and ethnicity; and have democratized at once, rather than gradually. The Indian founding is a natural reference point for such constitutional moments-when democracy, constitutionalism, and modernity occur simultaneously"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aAmbedkar, B. R. _q(Bhimrao Ramji), _d1891-1956.
610	1	0	_aIndia. _tConstitution.
650		0	_aConstitutional history _zIndia.
650		0	_aDemocratization _zIndia _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aDemocracy _zIndia _xHistory _y20th century.
651		0	_aIndia _xPolitics and government _y1947-
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