Can Federalism Save India’s Constitutional Democracy?

Sujit Choudhry

EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, 2022, vol. 4, issue 1, 69-77

Abstract: Madhav Khosla's brilliant book, India's Founding Moment , is self-consciously a work on the history of ideas. Nonetheless, the subtitle of India's Founding Moment — The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy —implies that Khosla draws a connection between the ideas that shaped the creation of constitutional democracy in India and its endurance. In this review, I pose the question of whether the design of the Constitution can be a source of constitutional resilience against the rising threat of authoritarianism and Hindu majoritarianism.

Keywords: India; Constitution; Federalism; Political party (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/s42439-021-00054-1

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