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100			_aKhosla, Madhav
245			_aIndia’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy
260			_bHarvard University Press _c2020 _aCambridge
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520			_aAn Economist Best Book of the Year How India's Constitution came into being and instituted democracy after independence from British rule. Britain's justification for colonial rule in India stressed the impossibility of Indian self-government. And the empire did its best to ensure this was the case, impoverishing Indian subjects and doing little to improve their socioeconomic reality. So when independence came, the cultivation of democratic citizenship was a foremost challenge. Madhav Khosla explores the means India's founders used to foster a democratic ethos. They knew the people would need to learn ways of citizenship, but the path to education did not lie in rule by a superior class of men, as the British insisted. Rather, it rested on the creation of a self-sustaining politics. The makers of the Indian Constitution instituted universal suffrage amid poverty, illiteracy, social heterogeneity, and centuries of tradition. They crafted a constitutional system that could respond to the problem of democratization under the most inhospitable conditions. On January 26, 1950, the Indian Constitution-the longest in the world-came into effect.
650			_aConstitutional History India
650			_aAmbedkar, B. R. (Bhimrao Ramji) 1891-1956.
650			_aDemocratization India
650			_aDemocracy India
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