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The Colonial Constitution by Arghya Sengupta is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Colonial Constitution about?
In December 1946, a diverse bunch of battle-weary Indian nationalists who had spent long years struggling for freedom against the British took up the challenge of a lifetime: drafting the constitution of a soon to be independent India. But, curiously, the document they produced seemed divorced from their own experience as freedom fighters.While during the freedom movement, the Government of India Act 1935 had been reviled as a ‘charter of slavery’, now more than a third of the Constitution was directly borrowed from that hated law. While many members of the Constituent Assembly had personally experienced the brutality of preventive detention and the law against sedition, the Assembly didn’t outlaw either. While Gandhiji had talked about keeping sovereign power close to the people by vesting a large part of it in the gram panchayat, the Constitution gave Indians a powerful, remote Union government ‘perched on Mt Everest’ that towered over the people like an imperial lord. Though citizens had some important fundamental rights, the government could suspend these rights at will using its wide emergency powers, wider than even what the British had when they left India. What we got then
Who reads The Colonial Constitution?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Arghya Sengupta
- Publisher
- Juggernaut Publication
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789353451929
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Law, Constitutional Law