02174nam a22002657a 4500 56709 56709 20211004122236.0 200708b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789353026844 Brijwasi Book Distributors ;H-87,Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092 BW/005825 ;08/06/2020 :International Book Distributors :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi :115453 :29/06/2020 342.54029 BHA Bhatia,Gautam. The Transformative Constitution : a radical biography in nine acts /Gautam Bhatia. Noida : HarperCollins Publishers India , 2019. xliv, 499 pages ; 22 cm. 699 699 "We think of the Indian Constitution as a founding document, embodying a moment of profound transformation from being ruled to becoming a nation of free and equal citizenship. Yet the working of the Constitution over the last seven decades has often failed to fulfill that transformative promise. Not only have successive Parliaments failed to repeal colonial-era laws that are inconsistent with the principles of the Constitution, but constitutional challenges to these laws have also failed before the courts. Indeed, in numerous cases, the Supreme Court has used colonial-era laws to cut down or weaken the fundamental rights. The Transformative Constitution by Gautam Bhatia draws on pre-Independence legal and political history to argue that the Constitution was intended to transform not merely the political status of Indians from subjects to citizens, but also the social relationships on which legal and political structures rested. He advances a novel vision of the Constitution, and of constitutional interpretation, which is faithful to its text, structure and history, and above all to its overarching commitment to political and social transformation."--Publisher's website. History Constitutional history -- India. Constitutional law -- India. Constitutional history. Constitutional history. Bhatia,Gautam. BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2020-07-08 Brijwasi Book Distributors 699.00 0 342.54029 BHA 27735 2020-07-08 00:00:00 2020-07-08 BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2020-08-26 International Book Distributors 699.00 0 342.54029 BHA 27815 2020-08-26 00:00:00 2020-08-26 BOOK