India is an important democratic country. Nowhere in the history of human civilization, which is more than five thousand years old, has never been a democratic experiment on such a large scale as it has been going on in India since independence. The realization of the importance of India in the context of democracy is…
Appointment and controversies on the post of Chief Justice The Supreme Court in India acts as the protector of the constitution and the final interpreter of the constitution. The Supreme Court of India has extensive powers of judicial review. He can declare any law passed by the Parliament as invalid which is against the constitution….
Powers of the Supreme Court The Federal Court has a special place in the federal constitution so that balance can be maintained and the autonomy of the supreme and center and units in their respective areas can be maintained. There is a need for a court that can interpret the constitution, and settle disputes between…
Historical Origins of the Constitution and Constituent Assembly Debates The Indian Constitution is the basis of the Indian system. The Indian Constitution is the longest surviving constitution in the post-colonial world and greatly influences public life in India. Indian constitution has great importance in the structure of daily life of Indian citizens and all the…
Introduction Chatterjee in his book (state and polities in India) talks about the National Planning Commission (NPC). How successful it has been in the Indian context and to what extent it can fulfill its objectives and what were the reasons for its failure, full detailed information is available. According to Chatterjee, it is a truism…
8 Types of Politics and Economics Performance The relationship between economics and politics Rudolph & Rudolph present the relationship between economics and politics through two models – command politics and demand politics. They use these models to explain the relationship between economy and politics in the Indian context and Rudolph & Rudolph have divided it…
Introduction We use the conflicting model between politics and the economy in independent India to explain the relationship between them (Command Polity) and (Demand Polity). These models give us the conflicting requirements of state sovereignty and popular sovereignty. allow us to raise questions about the tension between that determines the extent of autonomy on the…
Concept of Civic Culture Today’s era is the era of democratic-welfare states. Liberal form of democracy The main feature of modern democracy from which the risk of escape can put any political system in danger. Today, the need of the hour is to ensure the maximum participation of the people in the process of governance….
Political Culture The concept of political culture is a completely new concept in the field of political science. After the Second World War, political analysts attempted to find out why political systems with similar political structural structures differed and the directions of political development also differed. For this, political analysts started a comparative study of…
Sudipta Kaviraj Rise of the Indian State from the Pre-colonial State to the Modern State With modernity, we get to see a fundamental conceptual change. This is seen in the idea of āāthe state from the intellectual culture. European India has been the primary source of modernity. According to the view of Marxism in the…