The colonial constitution / (Record no. 3056562)
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| fixed length control field | 02057nam a22002177a 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | JGU |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20240131020032.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 231006b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789353451929 |
| Qualifying information | pbk. |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | JGU |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sengupta, Arghya, |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1644292 |
| Relator term | author |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The colonial constitution / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Arghya Sengupta. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New Delhi : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Juggernaut, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2023. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "In December 1946, a diverse bunch of battle-weary Indian nationalists took up the challenge of a lifetime: drafting the constitution of a soon to be independent India. But, curiously, this document 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 it. While many members of the Constituent Assembly had 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 through the gram panchayat, the Constitution gave Indians a powerful, remote Union government. 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 was a colonial constitution that fundamentally did not trust its own people. In this brilliantly argued and profound book, the scholar Arghya Sengupta shows us how we got here. Neither a critique nor a celebration, this is an origin story. An instant classic, The Colonial Constitution is the perfect antidote to the gushing accounts of the Constitution that abound. In the end, this book raises an unsettling question: does India need a new constitution?"-- |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Indian |
| Topical term following geographic name as entry element | Constitution |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1644440 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Constitutional jurisprudence |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1644441 |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Koha item type | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Full call number | Barcode | Total Checkouts | Date last seen | Date checked out |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | General Books | OPJGU Sonepat- Campus | OPJGU Sonepat- Campus | Main Library | 342.0290954 SE-C | 150732 | 4 | 22/10/2024 | 30/01/2024 |