Undermining the Idea of India - Couverture rigide

Patel, Gautam

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1803090766 ISBN 13 : 9781803090764

Editeur : Seagull Books London Ltd, 2022

Synopsis

A searing manifesto for troubled times in India.

"India is improbable. By any measure of logic or reason, it should not be. Not in this form. And yet it is."

With this provocation, Justice Gautam Patel of the Bombay High Court sketches the exoskeleton of this improbability--the "Constitutional" idea of India. Justice Patel argues that the devolution of power is necessary for the survival of any liberal democracy, maintaining the idea that "the right to choose one's own government is the right to dissent." Decrying the portrayal of politics as sport, Patel elucidates the strategies and tactics used by "nimble" governments to enforce a culture of "broad-spectrum illiberalism." A champion of transparency in the judiciary, Patel argues that the Internet and the judiciary must serve as beacons in this age of precarity. A timely text that comes at a juncture where liberal democracies across the world are facing existential threats, Undermining the Idea of India is a searing manifesto for our troubled times.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gautam S. Patel is a judge in the Bombay High Court.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1803090766
• ISBN 13: 9781803090764
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 84
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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