Introduction Prologue Part I The Great Constitutional Themes Emerge, 1950–66 Chapter 1 Settling into Harness Chapter 2 Free Speech, Liberty, and Public Order Chapter 3 The Social Revolution and the First Amendment Chapter 4 The Rights and the Revolution: More Property Amendments Chapter 5 The Judiciary: ‘Quite Untouchable’ Chapter 6 Making and Preserving a Nation Part II The Great Constitutional Confrontation: Judicial Versus Parliamentary Supremacy, 1967–73 Chapter 7 Indira Gandhi: In Context and in Power Chapter 8 The Golak Nath Inheritance Chapter 9 Two Catalytic Defeats Chapter 10 Radical Constitutional Amendments Chapter 11 Redeeming the Web: The Kesavananda Bharati Case Chapter 12 A ‘Grievous Blow’: The Supersession of Judges Part III Democracy Rescued Or the Constitution Subverted?: The Emergency and the Forty-second Amendment, 1975–77 Chapter 13 26 June 1975 Chapter 14 Closing the Circle Chapter 15 The Judiciary under Pressure Chapter 16 Preparing for Constitutional Change Chapter 17 The Forty-Second Amendment: Sacrificing Democracy to Power Part IV The Janata Interlude: Democracy Restored Chapter 18 Indira Gandhi Defeated—janata Forms a Government Chapter 19 Restoring Democratic Governance Chapter 20 Governing under the Constitution Chapter 21 The Punishment that Failed Chapter 22 A Government Dies Part V Indira Gandhi Returns Chapter 23 Ghosts of Governments Past Chapter 24 The Constitution Strengthened and Weakened Chapter 25 Judicial Reform or Harassment? Chapter 26 Turbulence in Federal Relations Part VI The Inseparable Twins: National Unity and Integrity and the Machinery of Federal Relations Chapter 27 Terminology and Its Perils Chapter 28 The Governor's ‘Acutely Controversial’ Role Chapter 29 New Delhi's Long Arm Chapter 30 Coordinating Mechanisms: How ‘Federal’? Part VII Conclusion Chapter 31 A Nation's Progress

This text tells a very human story of how the social, political and day-to-day lived realities of the Indian people has been reflected in, and in turn directed the course of, constitutional reforms in the country