India's Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy Khosla Madhav
India's Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy Khosla Madhav How India's Constitution came into being and instituted democracy after independence from British rule.Britain's…
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India's Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy Khosla Madhav
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. So when independence came, the cultivation of democratic citizenship was a foremost challenge.Madhav Khosla explores the means India's founders used to foster a democratic ethos. And the empire did its best to ensure this was the case, impoverishing Indian subjects and doing little to improve their socioeconomic reality.
Rather, it rested on the creation of a self-sustaining politics. They knew the people would need to learn ways of citizenship, but the path to education did not lie in rule by a superior class of men, as the British insisted. The makers of the Indian Constitution instituted universal suffrage amid poverty, illiteracy, social heterogeneity,