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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780691192550 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 342.54 |
| Item number | DER |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | De, Rohit |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | People's constitution : the everyday life of law in the Indian republic |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Princeton University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2018 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Princeton : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | ix, 296 p. ; |
| Other physical details | ill., |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | 699.00 |
| Price type code | INR |
| Unit of pricing | 00 |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Histories of economic life |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950, a document in English created by elite consensus, has had little influence on India’s greater population. Drawing upon the previously unexplored records of the Supreme Court of India, A People’s Constitution upends this narrative and shows how the Constitution actually transformed the daily lives of citizens in profound and lasting ways. This remarkable legal process was led by individuals on the margins of society and Rohit De looks at how drinkers, smugglers, petty vendors, butchers and prostitutes—all despised minorities—shaped the constitutional culture. The Constitution came alive in the popular imagination so much that ordinary people attributed meaning to its existence, took recourse to it and argued with it. Focusing on the use of constitutional remedies by citizens against new state regulations seeking to reshape the society and economy, De illustrates how laws and policies were frequently undone or renegotiated from below using the state’s own procedures. De examines four important cases that set legal precedents: a Parsi journalist’s contestation of new alcohol prohibition laws, Marwari petty traders’ challenge to the system of commodity control, Muslim butchers’ petition against cow protection laws and sex workers’ battle to protect their right to practice prostitution. Exploring how the Indian Constitution of 1950 enfranchised the largest population in the world, A People’s Constitution considers the ways that ordinary citizens produced, through litigation, alternative ethical models of citizenship. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Constitutional law |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | India Constitutions |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Bombay Prohibition Act(BPA) |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Caste |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Essential Supplies Act(ESA) |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Gosamvardhan Committee |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Hinduism |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Judiciary |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Partition |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Postcolonialism |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Prohition |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Prostitution |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | SITA |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Husna Bai |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Cow Slaughter |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Court Cases |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | |
| Item type | Books |
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| DAIICT | DAIICT | 2021-06-04 | 699.00 | 342.54 DER | 032565 | 2021-06-11 | Books |