Working a democratic constitution : The indian experience

Contents:
Introduction;
Prologue;
Part I The Great Constitutional Themes Emerge, 1950–66;
Chapter 1 Settling into Harness;
Chapter 2 Free Speech, Liberty, and Public Order;
Chapter 3 The Social Revolution and the First Amendment;
Chapter 4 The Rights and the Revolution: More Property Amendments;
Chapter 5 The Judiciary: ‘Quite Untouchable’;
Chapter 6 Making and Preserving a Nation;
Part II The Great Constitutional Confrontation: Judicial Versus Parliamentary Supremacy, 1967–73;
Chapter 7 Indira Gandhi: In Context and in Power;
Chapter 8 The Golak Nath Inheritance;
Chapter 9 Two Catalytic Defeats;
Chapter 10 Radical Constitutional Amendments;
Chapter 11 Redeeming the Web: The Kesavananda Bharati Case;
Chapter 12 A ‘Grievous Blow’: The Supersession of Judges;
Part III Democracy Rescued Or the Constitution Subverted?: The Emergency and the Forty-second Amendment, 1975–77;
Chapter 13 26 June 1975;
Chapter 14 Closing the Circle;
Chapter 15 The Judiciary under Pressure;
Chapter 16 Preparing for Constitutional Change;
Chapter 17 The Forty-Second Amendment: Sacrificing Democracy to Power;
Part IV The Janata Interlude: Democracy Restored;
Chapter 18 Indira Gandhi Defeated—janata Forms a Government;
Chapter 19 Restoring Democratic Governance;
Chapter 20 Governing under the Constitution;
Chapter 21 The Punishment that Failed;
Chapter 22 A Government Dies;
Part V Indira Gandhi Returns;
Chapter 23 Ghosts of Governments Past;
Chapter 24 The Constitution Strengthened and Weakened;
Chapter 25 Judicial Reform or Harassment?;
Chapter 26 Turbulence in Federal Relations;
Part VI The Inseparable Twins: National Unity and Integrity and the Machinery of Federal Relations;
Chapter 27 Terminology and Its Perils;
Chapter 28 The Governor's ‘Acutely Controversial’ Role;
Chapter 29 New Delhi's Long Arm;
Chapter 30 Coordinating Mechanisms: How ‘Federal’?;
Part VII Conclusion;
Chapter 31 A Nation's Progress.