A People's Constitution : : The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic / / Rohit De.
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 narra...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Histories of Economic Life ;
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Abbreviations -- |t Introduction -- |t 1. The Case of the Constable's Nose: Policing Prohibition in Bombay -- |t 2. The Case of the Excess Baggage: Commodity Controls, Market Governance, and the Making of Administrative Law -- |t 3. The Case of the Invisible Butchers: Economic Rites and Religious Rights -- |t 4. The Case of the Honest Prostitute: Sex, Work, and Freedom in the Indian Constitution -- |t Conclusion -- |t Epilogue -- |t Talking the State's Language -- |t Procedure over Substance -- |t Constitutionalism from the Margins -- |t A Constitution for Butchers? Markets, Circulation, and the Origin of Rights -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Notes -- |t Selected Bibliography -- |t Index |
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520 | |a 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. | ||
538 | |a Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
546 | |a In English. | ||
588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021) | |
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653 | |a Essential Commodities Act. | ||
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653 | |a Indian Constitution. | ||
653 | |a Indian Zoroastrians. | ||
653 | |a Indian citizens. | ||
653 | |a Indian constitutionalism. | ||
653 | |a Indian independence. | ||
653 | |a Indian minorities. | ||
653 | |a Indian women's movement. | ||
653 | |a Marwari community. | ||
653 | |a Muslim butchers. | ||
653 | |a Parsis. | ||
653 | |a Prohibition laws. | ||
653 | |a administrative law. | ||
653 | |a alcohol prohibition. | ||
653 | |a anti-trafficking laws. | ||
653 | |a beef consumption. | ||
653 | |a citizenship. | ||
653 | |a commodity control. | ||
653 | |a commodity controls. | ||
653 | |a constitutional actors. | ||
653 | |a constitutional consciousness. | ||
653 | |a constitutional culture. | ||
653 | |a constitutional law. | ||
653 | |a constitutional remedies. | ||
653 | |a constitutional right. | ||
653 | |a constitutionalism. | ||
653 | |a corruption. | ||
653 | |a cow protection laws. | ||
653 | |a cow protection. | ||
653 | |a cow slaughter. | ||
653 | |a democracy. | ||
653 | |a economic regulation. | ||
653 | |a economic rights. | ||
653 | |a freedom of movement. | ||
653 | |a government action. | ||
653 | |a liquor trade. | ||
653 | |a market economy. | ||
653 | |a minority rights. | ||
653 | |a police. | ||
653 | |a political action. | ||
653 | |a political legitimacy. | ||
653 | |a political mobilization. | ||
653 | |a postcolonial identity. | ||
653 | |a postcolonial state. | ||
653 | |a postcolonial world. | ||
653 | |a prostitution. | ||
653 | |a public interest. | ||
653 | |a public-interest litigation. | ||
653 | |a religious freedom. | ||
653 | |a religious rights. | ||
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653 | |a sex workers. | ||
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