Sixteen Stormy Days (Record no. 62781)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780143454731
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Zafaa Books & Distributors
Distributor address : 313/103A, H. No.-15, Tulsi Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi.
Bill Number ; ZBD0456
Bill Date ; 27/01/2025
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 342.54 SIN
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Singh, Tripurdaman.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Sixteen Stormy Days
Remainder of title : The Story of the First Amendment to the Constituion of India.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Tripurdaman Singh.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Gurugram
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Penguin Random
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2021.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xx, 276p.
Dimensions : 22cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 279
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Sixteen Stormy Days narrates the riveting story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India-one of the pivotal events in Indian political and constitutional history, and its first great battle of ideas. Passed in June 1951 in the face of tremendous opposition within and outside Parliament, the subject of some of independent India's fiercest parliamentary debates, the First Amendment drastically curbed freedom of speech; enabled caste-based reservation by restricting freedom against discrimination; circumscribed the right to property and validated abolition of the zamindari system; and fashioned a special schedule of unconstitutional laws immune to judicial challenge. Enacted months before India's inaugural election, the amendment represents the most profound changes that the Constitution has ever seen. Faced with an expansively liberal Constitution that stood in the way of nearly every major socio-economic plan in the Congress party's manifesto, a judiciary vigorously upholding civil liberties, and a press fiercely resisting his attempt to control public discourse, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru reasserted executive supremacy, creating the constitutional architecture for repression and coercion.<br/><br/>What extraordinary set of events led the prime minister-who had championed the Constitution when it was passed in 1950 after three years of deliberation-to radically amend it after a mere sixteen days of debate in 1951?<br/>Drawing on parliamentary debates, press reports, judicial pronouncements, official correspondence and existing scholarship, Sixteen Stormy Days challenges conventional wisdom on iconic figures such as Jawaharlal Nehru, B.R. Ambedkar, Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Patel and Shyama Prasad Mookerji, and lays bare the vast gulf between the liberal promise of India's Constitution and the authoritarian impulses of her first government.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element parliamentary debates
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Amendment to the Constitution
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Parliament
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Tripurdaman Singh
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 29/01/2025 Zafaa Books & Distributors 279.00   342.54 SIN 30688 29/01/2025 29/01/2025 Books
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