Introduction
Prologue
Part I: The Great Constitutional Themes Emerge, 1950-66
1. Settling into harness
2. Free Speech, Liberty, and Public Order
3. The Social Revolution and the First Amendment
4. The Rights and the Revolution: More Property Amendments
5. The
Judiciary: 'Quite Untouchable'
6. Making and Preserving a Nation
Part II: The Great Constitutional Confrontation: Judicial versus Parliamentary Supremacy, 1967-73
7. Indira Gandhi: In Context and in Power
8. The Golak Nath Inheritance
9. Two Catalytic Defeats
10. Radical
Constitutional Amendments
11. Redeeming The Web: The Kesavananda Bharati Case
12. A 'Grievous Blow': the Supersession of Judges
Part III: Democracy Rescued or the Constitution Subverted?: The Emergency and the Forty-Second Amendment, 1975-77
13. 26 June, 1975
14. Closing the
Circle
15. The Judiciary under Pressure
16. Preparing for Constitutional Change
17. The forty-second Amendment: Sacrificing Democracy to Power
Part IV: The Janata Interlude
18. Janata forms Government
19. Restoring Federal Governance
20. Governing under the
Constitution
21. The Punishment that Failed
22. A Government Dies
Part V: Indira Gandhi Returns
23. Ghosts of Governments Past
24. The Constitution Strengthened and Weakened
25. Judicial Reform or Harassment
26. The Villain in Federal Relations
Part VI: The
Inseparable Twins: National Unity and Integrity and the Machinery of Federal Relations
27. Terminology and its merits
28. The Governors' acutely conscious role
29. New Delhi Long Hour
30. Constitutional Mechanisms how 'Federal'
Part VII: Conclusion
31. A Nation's
progress
Bibliography
Index
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Independent Historian, retired Professor. Previous positions include: Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, Staff Member of the US Senate, Founding Director of the Committee for Arab-Israeli Peace