Republic of India

Constitutional Origins, Structure, and Change in Federal Democracies

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 180-207

  Majeed, Akhtar ^a,b  

^a HAMDARD UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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1. For the text of the Constitution with some commentary, see P.M. Bakshi, The Constitution of India, 5th ed. (Delhi: Universal Law Publishing, 2003)
2. See also M.V. Pylee, Our Constitution, Government and Politics (New Delhi: Universal Law, 2002)
3. Granville Austin, Working a Democratic Constitution: A History of the Indian Experience (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999)
4. and B. Shiva Rao, The Framing of India's Constitution: Select Documents (New Delhi: Indian Institute of Public Administration, 1968).
5. Neera Chandhoke, The Concept of Civil Society (New Delhi: Oxford, 2003)
6. Akhtar Majeed, ed., Nation and Minorities: India's Plural Society and its Constituents (New Delhi: Kanishka Publishers, 2002)
7. Zoya Hasan, Politics and the State in India (New Delhi: Sage, 2000)
8. Partha Chatterjee, State and Politics in India (New Delhi: Oxford, 1997)
9. and Balveer Arora and Douglas Verney, Multiple Identities in a Single State: Indian Federalism in a Comparative Perspective (New Delhi: Konark, 1995)
10. N. Gangulee, The Making of Federal India (London: James Nisbet and Co., 1936).
11. D.D. Basu, Introduction to the Constitution of India, 3rd ed. (New Delhi: Wadhwa, 2002), pp. 6-7.
12. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (India's second president) and Frank Anthony, i December 1946, Constituent Assembly. Constituent Assembly Debates, vol. 1, pp. 37-41
13. Constituent Assembly Debates, vol. 5, pp. 494-95.
14. Keshavanada Bharati v State of Kerala, All-India Reporter (AIR) 1973 Supreme Court (sc) 1461
15. See also H.M. Seervai, Constitutional Law of India, vol. 2 (Bombay:N.M. Tripathi, 1993), p. 1355
16. and Austin, Working a Democratic Constitution, p. 258.
17. AIR 1975 sc 2299, quoted in J.N. Pandey, Constitutional Law of India (Allahabad:Central Law Agency, 2003), 71.
18. AIR 1980 sc 1789, quoted in Pandey, Constitutional Law of India, p. 319.
19. State of Bihar v BalMukund Sah, AIR 2000 sc 1296, quoted in Pandey, Constitutional Law of India, p. 147.
20. By comparison, the us Constitution, "in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union, composed of Indestructible States." Texas v White, 74 us (7 Wall.) 700 (1869).
21. AIR 1977 sc 1361. See also Alice Jacob and Rajeev Dhavan, "The Dissolution Case Politics at the Bar of the Supreme Court," Journal of the Indian Law Institute 19 (1977): 355-97
22. and Rajeev Dhavan, President's Rule in the States (Bombay:N.M. Tripathi, 1979), pp. 126-58.
23. George Mathew, ed., Status of Panchayati Raj in the States and Union Territories of India, 2000 (New Delhi: Institute of Social Sciences, 2000).
24. S.R. Bommai v Union of India, 3 sec (1994), and State ofRajasthan v Union of India, AIR 1977 sc 1361, both quoted in A.G. Noorani, Constitutional Questions in India (New Delhi: Oxford, 2000), pp. 268 and 253 respectively.
25. Amal Ray and John Kincaid, "Politics, Economic Development, and Second-Generation Strain in India's Federal System," Publius: The Journal of Federalism 18 (Spring 1988): 147-67.
26. See M. Govinda Rao, "Indian Fiscal Federalism from a Comparative Perspective," Multiple Identities in a Single State, ed. Arora and Verney, Multiple Identities in a Single State, pp. 272-316.
27. Report of the Commission on Centre-State Relations [the Sarkaria Commission], vol. 1 (Nasik: Government of India Press, 1988), p. 387.
28. "Emerging Issues in Indian Federalism," Publius: The Journal of Federalism 33 (Fall 2003): entire issue
29. M. Govinda Rao, Development, Poverty and Fiscal Policy:Decentralisation of Institutions (New Delhi: Oxford, 2002)
30. and Akhtar Majeed, ed., Coalition Politics and Power Sharing (New Delhi: Manak Publishers, 2000).
31. Rasheeduddin Khan, Rethinking Indian Federalism (Shimla: Inter-University Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, 1997)