This book discusses the working of the Parliament in India, its successes and failures, and challenges the argument that the Parliament, as a principal institution of parliamentary democracy in India, is on a decline and needs to be superseded by an alternative set of institutions, presidential or otherwise. It underscores the parliament's changing social composition; changes in its conception of representation; the shift from English as its mode of expression to the assertion of regional languages and the change in the conception of the nation that it came to reflect by reaching out to pluralism and diversity.…mehr
This book discusses the working of the Parliament in India, its successes and failures, and challenges the argument that the Parliament, as a principal institution of parliamentary democracy in India, is on a decline and needs to be superseded by an alternative set of institutions, presidential or otherwise. It underscores the parliament's changing social composition; changes in its conception of representation; the shift from English as its mode of expression to the assertion of regional languages and the change in the conception of the nation that it came to reflect by reaching out to pluralism and diversity.
B.L. Shankar is a former Member of the Lok Sabha and Chairman of the Karnataka Legislative Council. Valerian Rodrigues is Professor and Chairperson, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgements * List of Abbreviations * Introduction * 1. Making of the Indian Parliament * 2. Changing Social Composition of the Lok Sabha * 3. Changing Conception of Representation: Issues, Concerns, and Institutions * 4. Changing Modes of Discourse: Shift from English to Regional Languages * 5. From National Identity to Plural Identities * 6. Parliament-Judiciary Relationship * 7. The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha * 8. In-House Reproduction of the Lok Sabha * Conclusion * Select Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgements * List of Abbreviations * Introduction * 1. Making of the Indian Parliament * 2. Changing Social Composition of the Lok Sabha * 3. Changing Conception of Representation: Issues, Concerns, and Institutions * 4. Changing Modes of Discourse: Shift from English to Regional Languages * 5. From National Identity to Plural Identities * 6. Parliament-Judiciary Relationship * 7. The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha * 8. In-House Reproduction of the Lok Sabha * Conclusion * Select Bibliography * Index
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