Constituent Assembly of India : Springboard of Revolution/Shibanikinkar Chaube. 2nd Edition. Delhi, Manohar, 2000, 264 p., $28. ISBN 81-7304-356-6.

Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. The Indian problem. 2. Constituent Assembly as the answer. 3. Birth of the Constituent Assembly. 4. Constituent Assembly versus interim Government. 5. Constituent Assembly versus the Muslim League. 6. Constituent Assembly and partition. 7. A sovereign body. 8. Mind and procedure of the Constituent Assembly. 9. Indian outlook. 10. Cross-currents of Indian politics. 11. End of the Indian problem (I)—Constituent Assembly and native states. 12. End of the Indian problem (II)—Minority rights. 13. Framing of the constitution (I)—The social structure. 14. Framing of the constitution (II)—The state structure. 15. Framing of the constitution (III)—Government structure. 16. Framing of the constitution (IV)—Extra wheels in the Machine. 17. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

"The first edition of this book was published 25 years after Independence. This, second, edition has been revised keeping in view the debates on the Constitution that cropped up in the next 28 years, including the current one, on the revision of the entire text, and is based on the belief that the Constitution of India was framed within an integrated legal-political structure which may be affected by piecemeal amendments." (jacket)

[Shibanikinkar Chaube retired as Professor of Indian Politics, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi.]

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