TY - BOOK AU - Bhargava,Rajeev TI - Politics and ethics of the Indian constitution SN - 9780198063551 (pbk.) U1 - 342.5402 POL 23 PY - 2008/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Constitutional law KW - India KW - Constitutions KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Section I. The Constitution as a statement of Indian identity /​ Bhikhu Parekh Gandhi and the Constitution : Parliamentary Swaraj and village Swaraj /​ Thomas Pantham Institutional visions and sociological imaginations: the debate on Panchayati Raj /​ Peter Ronald deSouza Outline of a theory of practice of Indian constitutionalism /​ Upendra Baxi A text without author : locating the constituent assembly as event /​ Aditya Nigam. Section II. The Indian state : Constitution and beyond /​ Suhas Palshikar Citizenship and the Indian Constitution /​ Valenian Rodrigues Citizenship and the passive revolution : interpreting the First Amendment /​ Nivedita Menon Democracy and Constitutionalism /​ Sanjay Palshikar Constitutional justice : positional and cultural /​ Gopal Guru. Section III. Religion and the Indian Constitution : questions of separation and equality /​ Gurpreet Mahajan Passion and constraint: courts and the regulation of religious meaning /​ Pratap Bhanu Mehta Rights versus representation: defending minority interests in the constituent assembly /​ Shefali Jha Minority representation and the making of the Indian Constitution /​ Rochana Bajpai N2 - Contributed articles presented at a conference on the political philosophy of the Indian constitution held in Goa in Sept. 2001 UR - http://openisbn.com/isbn/0198063555/ ER -