A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic

"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...

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主要作者: De, Rohit
格式: 图书
语言:英语
出版: New Jersey Princeton University Press 2018
丛编:Histories of Economic Life Series
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