OUP India
The Indian Constitution: Oxford India Short Introductions
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- Madhav Khosla
- OUP India
- Paperback
- 9780198075387
- 7.2 X 5 X 0.6 inches
- 0.4 pounds
- Political Science > Comparative Politics
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Giving identity to over a billion people, the Indian Constitution is one of the world's great political texts. Drafted over six decades ago, its endurance and operation have fascinated and surprised many. In this short introduction, Madhav Khosla brings to light its many features, aspirations, and controversies. How does the Constitution separate power between different political actors? What form of citizenship does it embrace? And how can it change? In answering questions such as these, Khosla unravels the document's remarkable and challenging journey, inviting readers to reflect upon the theory and practice of constitutionalism in the world's largest democracy.
Author Bio
Madhav Khosla is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Ashoka University, the Ambedkar Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Columbia University, and a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. He works across a range of themes in public law and political theory.
Much of his writing and research has been in comparative constitutional law, with a focus on South Asia and India.
His books include India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy (Harvard University Press 2020), The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution (Oxford University Press 2016) (ed. with Sujit Choudhry and Pratap Bhanu Mehta) and Unstable Constitutionalism: Law and Politics in South Asia (Cambridge University Press 2015) (ed. with Mark Tushnet). In addition, Khosla’s writings have appeared in journals such as the American Journal of Comparative Law and the International Journal of Constitutional Law, as well as popular forums like the Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Times,
and Time.
Khosla studied political theory at Harvard University, where his dissertation was awarded the Edward M. Chase Prize for “the best dissertation on a subject relating to the promotion of world peace”, and law at Yale Law School and the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. His work has been cited by courts in India and Pakistan.
Source: Columbia Law School
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