The Indian parliament : a democracy at work / B. L. Shankar, Valerian Rodrigues.

By:

Shankar, B. L [author]

Contributor(s):

Rodrigues, Valerian [author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2014.Description: xv, 412 pISBN:

9780199453368

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DDC classification:

23 328.54

Summary: "In the course of constitutional developments under colonial rule, there emerged a broad consensus in India that the Parliament would be the most important institution around which the nation would build its public life. This study primarily concerns itself with the working of the Indian Parliament during three distinct phases - the 1950s, the 1970s, and the 1990s and beyond. It interrogates the 'decline thesis' - the argument that the Indian Parliament has been on the decline or has to be superseded by an alternative set of institutions, Presidential or otherwise - which forms the principal subject matter of this study. Highlighting the way the Parliament has come to encompass India's proverbial diversity, the authors suggest that the shortcomings of the complex of Parliamentary institutions in India can be rectified without replacing them with an entirely new set of institutions."

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Print	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	General Books	Main Library	328.54 SH-I (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		146818
Print	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	General Books	Main Library	328.54 SH-I (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		146819

"In the course of constitutional developments under colonial rule, there emerged a broad consensus in India that the Parliament would be the most important institution around which the nation would build its public life. This study primarily concerns itself with the working of the Indian Parliament during three distinct phases - the 1950s, the 1970s, and the 1990s and beyond. It interrogates the 'decline thesis' - the argument that the Indian Parliament has been on the decline or has to be superseded by an alternative set of institutions, Presidential or otherwise - which forms the principal subject matter of this study. Highlighting the way the Parliament has come to encompass India's proverbial diversity, the authors suggest that the shortcomings of the complex of Parliamentary institutions in India can be rectified without replacing them with an entirely new set of institutions."

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