Constitutional Features of the Ancient Indian Republics
Author: Suvir Kapur
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9789386611079
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Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9789386611079
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Benjamin Isakhan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781349318872
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the intriguing idea that there is much more democracy in human history than is generally acknowledged. It establishes that democracy was developing across greater Asia before classical Athens, clung on during the 'Dark Ages', often formed part of indigenous governance and is developing today in unexpected ways.
Author: Rohit De
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0691210381
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950, a document in English created by elite consensus, has had little influence on India’s greater population. Drawing upon the previously unexplored records of the Supreme Court of India, A People’s Constitution upends this narrative and shows how the Constitution actually transformed the daily lives of citizens in profound and lasting ways. This remarkable legal process was led by individuals on the margins of society, and Rohit De looks at how drinkers, smugglers, petty vendors, butchers, and prostitutes—all despised minorities—shaped the constitutional culture. The Constitution came alive in the popular imagination so much that ordinary people attributed meaning to its existence, took recourse to it, and argued with it. Focusing on the use of constitutional remedies by citizens against new state regulations seeking to reshape the society and economy, De illustrates how laws and policies were frequently undone or renegotiated from below using the state’s own procedures. De examines four important cases that set legal precedents: a Parsi journalist’s contestation of new alcohol prohibition laws, Marwari petty traders’ challenge to the system of commodity control, Muslim butchers’ petition against cow protection laws, and sex workers’ battle to protect their right to practice prostitution. Exploring how the Indian Constitution of 1950 enfranchised the largest population in the world, A People’s Constitution considers the ways that ordinary citizens produced, through litigation, alternative ethical models of citizenship.
Author: Sanjeev Kumar
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2016-05-11
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1443894338
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first book to study taxation and revenue collection through a detailed analysis of public finance and financial administration in four major Indian texts, namely Mahabharata, Manusmriti, Shukranitisar and Arthashastra, as philosophers trained in the Indian classic tradition and scholars working on ancient Indian wisdom mostly prefer a more abstract approach. India has a long tradition of at least two millennia of active philosophizing in the fields of logic, ethics, epistemology and metaphysics, though many in the West feel hesitant in according it the title “philosophy” in their sense of the word. Furthermore, few in India have taken it beyond philosophy towards active knowledge. This book re-visits and re-interprets the contexts of these texts with logic and objectivity to bring the pearls of knowledge found within into the present day, showing that Sanskrit is still the lingua franca of intellectual dialogue in India.
Author: Shivenandan Misra
Publisher: Lucknow : Upper India Publishing House
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 364
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gerald Leonard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-01-31
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1107024161
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides a compelling account of early American constitutionalism in the Founding era.
Author: G. P. Singh
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This, An Authorised Reprint Of An Annual Bulletin Of The Indian Archaeological Society, Has Been Offering Valuable Informations, Full With Rich Insights And Innovative Viewpoints, On The Indian Archaeology That Includes Excavations, Inscriptions, Temples, Mosques, Iconic Symbols, Paintings, Etc. This Yearly Bulletin Is Highly Recommended For Archaeologists, Epigraphists, Historians And Research Scholars Besides The General Readers Having Interest In Such Fields.
Author: Scott GORDON
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0674037839
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the development of the theory and practice of constitutionalism, defined as a political system in which the coercive power of the state is controlled through a pluralistic distribution of political power. It explores the main venues of constitutional practice in ancient Athens, Republican Rome, Renaissance Venice, the Dutch Republic, seventeenth-century England, and eighteenth-century America. From its beginning in Polybius' interpretation of the classical concept of mixed government, the author traces the theory of constitutionalism through its late medieval appearance in the Conciliar Movement of church reform and in the Huguenot defense of minority rights. After noting its suppression with the emergence of the nation-state and the Bodinian doctrine of sovereignty, the author describes how constitutionalism was revived in the English conflict between king and Parliament in the early Stuart era, and how it has developed since then into the modern concept of constitutional democracy.
Author: J. G. A. Pocock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987-04-24
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780521316439
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pocock explores the relationship between the study of law and the historical outlook of seventeenth-century Englishmen.