Research Catalog

Title

Constitutional foundings in South Asia / edited by Kevin Y. L. Tan and Ridwanul Hoque.

Publication

• Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Hart Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021.
• ©2021

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Additional Authors

• Tan, Kevin
• Hoque, Ridwanul

Description

xii, 268 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"This volume addresses the idea of origins, how things are formed, and how they relate to their present and future in terms of 'constitution-making' which is a continuous process in South Asian states. It examines the drafting, nature, core values, and roles of the first modern constitutions during the founding of the eight modern nation-states in South Asia. The book looks at the following constitutions: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It provides an explanatory description of the process and substantive inputs in the making of the first constitutions of these nations, it sets out to analyse the internal and external (including intra-regional) forces surrounding the making of these constitutions and it sets out theoretical constructions of models to conceptualise the nature and role of the first constitutions (including constituent documents) in the founding of the modern nation-states and their subsequent impact on state-building in the region"--

Series Statement

Constitutionalism in Asia series

Uniform Title

Constitutionalism in Asia (Hart Publishing (Oxford, England))

Subject

• Constitutional history > South Asia
• Constitutional history
• South Asia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

South Asian constitutional foundings : beyond history / Kevin Y. L. Tan and Ridwanul Hoque -- India's constitutional founding : an enduring but mixed legacy / Arun K Thiruvengadam -- From nation to state : constitutional founding in Pakistan / Sadaf Aziz and Moeen Cheema -- The founding and making of Bangladesh's constitution / Ridwanul Hoque -- Dominion status and compromised foundations : the Soulbury Constitution and Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist responses to the founding of the Ceylonese State, 1931 -- 1956 / Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne -- Constitutional foundings in Nepal : experience with changing parameters / Bipin Adhikari -- Making Bhutan's Constitution : institutionalising a 'traditional' monarchy / Winnie Bothe -- Towards a Maldivian nation-state : the Constitutions of 1932 and 1968 / Shamsul Falaah -- Afghanistan : an aborted beginning / Ebrahim Afsah.

ISBN

• 9781509930258
• 1509930256
• 9781509944033
• 1509944036
• 9781509930265 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781509930272 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020038526

OCLC

• on1192302796
• SCSB-9847440

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library