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An Economist Best Book of the Year How India’s Constitution came into being and instituted democracy after independence from British rule. Britain’s justification for colonial rule in India stressed the impossibility of Indian self-government. And the empire did its best to ensure this was the case, impoverishing Indian subjects and doing little to improve their socioeconomic reality. So when independence came, the cultivation of democratic citizenship was a foremost challenge. Madhav Khosla exp
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- Author
- Madhav Khosla
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674980877
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- History, Law, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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