In this paper, we examine the parliamentary democracy in India. The Constitution makers adopted the British model of parliamentary democracy but democratic institutions had existed in many parts of ancient Vedic India. In this historical context, we explore the concepts of ‘Sabha’ and ‘Samiti’, the ancient institutions of representative democracy in India. Under the Constitution, the people of India exercise their sovereignty through Parliament at the central level and through State Legislatures in each State. The executive power is vested in the President, who is the highest dignitary in the realm, the symbol of the statehood, and the embodiment of the unity of the country. He represents the sovereign will of the nation and exercises his f...
Elections are one of the most important features of the democratic process which constitutes the sig...
Borooah reviews the major developments in Indian politics from Independence in 1947 till the latest ...
The main goal of the study is to analyze and evaluate critically the idea of B.R.Ambedkar, the great...
Purpose – This paper examines the decline of the largest working parliamentary democracy in India ov...
A government through representation and discussion is fundamentally what is meant by parliamentary g...
The paper highlights the importance of parliamentary systems and democracy in tackling the present e...
India’s freedom signalled the end of European imperialism and new start of rule of people in India t...
On 15 Aug 1997, India celebrated 50 years as an independent nation. Except for a brief 18 months bet...
Decisions of national importance are made by Parliamentary voting. Yet Indian Members of Parliament ...
The institutional experience of the Indian Union is quite underestimated by European legal scholars ...
Britain’s justification for colonial rule in India stressed the impossibility of Indian self-governm...
This study is concerned with the effect of India's state of emergency 1975-77, on the operation of t...
© 2016 by Duke University Press. The essays in this special section make a significant intervention ...
On 15 August 1997, India celebrated fifty years as an independent nation. Except, for a brief eighte...
The essays in this special section make a significant intervention into debates about the evolution ...
Elections are one of the most important features of the democratic process which constitutes the sig...
Borooah reviews the major developments in Indian politics from Independence in 1947 till the latest ...
The main goal of the study is to analyze and evaluate critically the idea of B.R.Ambedkar, the great...
Purpose – This paper examines the decline of the largest working parliamentary democracy in India ov...
A government through representation and discussion is fundamentally what is meant by parliamentary g...
The paper highlights the importance of parliamentary systems and democracy in tackling the present e...
India’s freedom signalled the end of European imperialism and new start of rule of people in India t...
On 15 Aug 1997, India celebrated 50 years as an independent nation. Except for a brief 18 months bet...
Decisions of national importance are made by Parliamentary voting. Yet Indian Members of Parliament ...
The institutional experience of the Indian Union is quite underestimated by European legal scholars ...
Britain’s justification for colonial rule in India stressed the impossibility of Indian self-governm...
This study is concerned with the effect of India's state of emergency 1975-77, on the operation of t...
© 2016 by Duke University Press. The essays in this special section make a significant intervention ...
On 15 August 1997, India celebrated fifty years as an independent nation. Except, for a brief eighte...
The essays in this special section make a significant intervention into debates about the evolution ...
Elections are one of the most important features of the democratic process which constitutes the sig...
Borooah reviews the major developments in Indian politics from Independence in 1947 till the latest ...
The main goal of the study is to analyze and evaluate critically the idea of B.R.Ambedkar, the great...