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Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India [Hardback]

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(Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, UK)
  • Formāts: Hardback, 272 pages, height x width x depth: 220x140x28 mm, weight: 481 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 25-Jan-2024
  • Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1350384380
  • ISBN-13: 9781350384385
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 272 pages, height x width x depth: 220x140x28 mm, weight: 481 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 25-Jan-2024
  • Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1350384380
  • ISBN-13: 9781350384385
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Winner of the Ramnath Goenka Award 2020

On 26th January 1950 India became a republic, shedding its last links with its colonial past and inaugurating a new era of liberty and freedom. With fundamental rights and civil liberties guaranteed by the state, the new constitution was universally acclaimed as the worlds greatest experiment in liberal government.

This idealistic birth of a new republic meant a clean break with a repressive past. And yet, barely twelve months later, the very makers of the constitution were denouncing their own creation. Passed in June 1951, the First Amendment to the Constitution was a pivotal moment in Indian constitutional history.

Sixteen Stormy Days explores the contentious legacy of this First Amendment which drastically curbed freedom of speech, restricted freedom against discrimination and circumscribed the right to property.

It follows the sixteen days of debate that led up to it, the people that created it, the great battle waged against it and the immense consequences it has had for Indian democracy. It is a cautionary tale about an almost forgotten but hugely consequential piece of history that holds the key to understanding the position of civil liberties and individual freedoms in India today. It 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 Indias Constitution and the authoritarian impulses of her first government.

Recenzijas

A page-turner * Soutik Biswas, India Correspondent, BBC * Exhaustively researched very readable * Open Magazine * A compelling read * Firstpost * History written as thriller exceptional * LiveMint * A scintillating examination of the First Amendment Brings the legacies of Nehru and Modi uncomfortably close * The Telegraph * Extremely well researched, beautifully written and qualitatively brilliant * Comparative Constitutional Law and Administrative Law Journal * simply written, yet riveting account will appeal to legal and academic scholars, as well as a wide readership of interested citizens * South Asia Research * This riveting book highlights Nehrus role in post-colonial Indias first constitutional crisis. Singhs nuanced perspectives comprehensively capture the historical and legal contexts that defined the event. It is masterfully writtena book for anyone who wants to look behind the veil of the worlds largest constitutional democracy. -- Adeel Hussain, Associate Professor of Legal Studies, New York University, USA This book is dynamite. It will shock those who take a rosy view of the Constitution and the freedoms it grants to Indian citizens. This story, so far untold, should lead to a serious re-examination of the history and contents of the Constitution. -- Lord Meghnad Desai, Emeritus Professor, London School of Economics, UK A long overdue study of the way in which the liberties guaranteed by Indias constitution were sabotaged by the very government that had promulgated it, thus returning the newly independent state to its colonial origins. -- Professor Faisal Devji, University of Oxford, UK This blow-by-blow account of the first amendment of the Indian Constitutionarguably the most far-reachingupends many a comforting myth about the Indian republic. Singhs gripping account of this hitherto understudied and high-stakes political battle is at its provocative best when it challenges efforts at understanding the past through the lens of one-dimensional heroes and villains. -- Mrinalini Sinha, author of Spectres of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire

Papildus informācija

This book explores the contentious legacy of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India; the events leading up to it, the people who created it, the controversy it provoked and its consequences on Indian democracy.

Introduction
1. The Build Up
2. Will the People Wait
3. The Deepening Crisis
4. The Gathering Storm
5. The Clouds Burst
6. The Battle Rages
7. The Aftermath
Notes
Index

Tripurdaman Singh is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, UK. Born in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, Tripurdaman read politics and international studies at the University of Warwick, and subsequently earned an MPhil in modern South Asian studies and a PhD in history from the University of Cambridge, UK. He has been a visiting fellow at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and an Indian Council of Historical Research Fellow in India. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, Tripurdaman's books include Imperial Sovereignty and Local Politics (2019) and Nehru (2022).