Ronojoy Sen
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Keywords: India, Constitution, Supreme Court, judgments, litigation, rights
DOI: 10.5509/2021944707
THE TRANSFORMATIVE CONSTITUTION: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts. By Gautam Bhatia. New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2019. 544 pp. Rs 699. ISBN 9789353026844.
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This review essay briefly discusses Granville Austin’s landmark study of the working of the Indian Constitution and its critics, reviews three recent books on that Constitution, and evaluates the extent to which these new works have been able to take constitutional studies in new directions. All three books shine a light on the critical role of the Constitution and the courts in Indian democracy. While the authors are well aware of contemporary challenges to constitutionalism and have written on them elsewhere, this does not fully come through in their books. Despite this shortcoming, these recent studies are indispensable in making sense of the Constitution and its role in Indian democracy.
一个国族文本的生命：印度宪法的苦旅
关键词：印度；宪法；最高法院；裁断；诉讼；权利。
本评论简要讨论了格兰维尔· 奥斯丁对印度宪法的里程碑性的研究及其批评者，评价了最近三本研究该宪法的著作， 并评估了这些新著在何种程度上将宪法研究引领到了新的方向。三本著作均对宪法和法院在印度民主中所起的关键作用进行了揭示。尽管几位作者均意识到宪法主义面临的当代挑战，并且都在别处有所著及，然而他们的书中并没有对此加以充分探讨。尽管有这个缺陷，这些最新研究对于理解宪法和其在民主中的作用还是不可或缺的。
Translated from English by Li Guo
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