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For all of India’s myths, stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recapturing the human dimension of how the world’s largest democracy came to be. His trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, film stars and corporate titans-some famous, some unjustly forgotten-bring feeling, wry humour and uncommon insight to dilemmas that extend from ancient times ...
The collection of essays studies as to what extent the South Asian experience of comparative law offers insight into broader trends in constitutionalism and how familiarity with the South Asian experience can aid the field of general comparative constitutional law. It throws light on the degree of constitutional and legal kinship among the nation of South Asia even though the legal communities of these nations have always looked to the West for modelling their ...
Civil society is one of the most used - and abused - concepts in current political thinking. In this important collection of essays, the concept is subjected to rigorous analysis by an international team of contributors, all of whom seek to encourage the historical and comparative understanding of political thought. The volume is divided into two parts: the first section analyses the meaning of civil society in different theoretical traditions of Western ...