Arvind Elangovan on Tensions Within the Indian Constitution
Ideas of India
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The Most Authoritarian Aspect of the Constitution
I think the most authoritarian aspect of the constitution is the centry petelism, that we have placed all our faith in the union executive an everything else is like a sub branch of the government. They used to do this from whitehall and the india office before. Now we're doing it from north block. It's shockingly carried this colonial legacy forward? I don't know. And that is made only possible because of this authoritatian nature of ewhich has been made authoritatist by successive governments. i think the modi government, in all its excess, is a continuation of previous governments in india. Absolutely. In some of my work, i have characterized
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