Constitutent Assembly of India
Springboard of Revolution

Shibanikinkar Chaube (Author)

9788173043567

Hardback, published 20 November 2024

264 pages
23 x 50 x 1.5 cm, 0.75 kg

The first edition of this book was published 25 years after Independence. This second edition has been revised keeping in view the debates on the Constitution that cropped up in the next 28 years, including the current one, on the revision of the entire text, and is based on the belief that the Constitution of India was framed within an integrated legal-political structure which may be affected by piecemeal amendments.

• Preface to the Second Edition 9
• Preface to the First Edition 11
• Introduction 13 Part I
• 1. The Indian Problem 17
• 2. Constituent Assembly as the Answer 26
• 3. Birth of the Constituent Assembly 37
• 4. Constituent Assembly versus Interim Government 50
• 5. Constituent Assembly versus the Muslim League 58
• 6. Constituent Assembly and Partition 70
• 7. A Sovereign Body 82
• Part II
• 8. Mind and Procedure of the Constituent Assembly 95
• 9. Indian Outlook 111
• 10. Cross-currents of Indian Politics 120
• 11. End of the Indian Problem (I)—
  Constituent Assembly and Native States 129 12. End of the Indian Problem (II)—
  Minority Rights 144
• 13. Framing of the Constitution (I)—
  The Social Structure 156
• 14. Framing of the Constitution (II)—
  The State Structure 179
• 15. Framing of the Constitution (III)—
  Government Structure 193
• 16. Framing of the Constitution (IV)—
  Extra Wheels in the Machine 213
• 17. Conclusion 231
• Bibliography 247
• Index 255