Republic of Rhetoric: Free Speech and the Constitution of India - Couverture souple

Chandrachud, Abhinav

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143455648 ISBN 13 : 9780143455646

Editeur : Penguin, 2021

Synopsis

Exploring the legal and political history of India, from the British period to the present, Republic of Rhetoric examines the right to free speech and it argues that the enactment of the Constitution in 1950 did not make a significant difference to the freedom of expression in India. Abhinav Chandrachud suggests that colonial-era restrictions on free speech, like sedition, obscenity, contempt of court, defamation and hate speech, were not merely retained but also strengthened in independent India. Authoritative and compelling, this book offers lucid and cogent arguments that have not been substantially advanced before by any of the leading thinkers on the right of free speech in India.

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À propos de l?auteur

Abhinav Chandrachud is an advocate who practises at the Bombay High Court. He graduated from the LLM programme at Harvard Law School, where he was a Dana Scholar, and from the JSM and JSD programmes at Stanford Law School, where he was a Franklin Family Scholar. He has worked as an associate attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, a global law firm, and as a paralegal at AZB & Partners, a leading law firm in India. He is the author of Republic of Rhetoric: Free Speech and the Constitution of India (2017), Supreme Whispers: Conversations with Judges of the Supreme Court of India 1980-1989 (2018) and Republic of Religion: The Rise and Fall of Colonial Secularism in India (2020). He writes a column for Bloomberg Quint.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0143455648
• ISBN 13: 9780143455646
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
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