The Indian Constitution and Social Revolution: Right to Property sinceIndependence
- 1st. ed
- New Delhi Sage 2015
- 495
This book highlights the evolution of India’s Constitution into a tool for social revolution, tracing the various stages through which the law on the Right to Property and its relationship with the idea of socialism—as laid out in Parts III and IV of the Constitution—have evolved.
It underlines that the road to social revolution has been marked by a process where attempts to give effect to the idea of justice—social, economic, and political—as laid down in the Preamble have achieved a measure of success. If the Constitution, including the Preamble, is to be viewed as a contract that the people of India had entered into with the political leadership of the times and the judiciary being the arbitrator to ensure justice, it may be held that the scheme has worked. This book traces this history by placing the judicial and legislative measures in the larger context of the political discourse.
Preface Acknowledgments Idea of Socialism and the Indian National Congress: The Nehru Imprint Socialism and the Right to Property as a Fundamental Right: The Constituent Assembly Debates Socialism as State Policy: A Brief Discussion on the Debate on Directive Principles in the Constituent Assembly The Socialist Agenda: Reconciling Fundamental Rights with Directive Principles Property as Fundamental Right: The Judiciary Strikes Again Restoring the Balance: Keshavananda and the Basic Structure Doctrine Integrating the Directive Principles into the Fundamental Rights Socialism and Liberalization Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index