Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India
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Winner of the Ramnath Goenka Award 2020
On 26th January 1950 India became a republic, shedding its last links with its colonial past and inaugurating a new era of liberty and freedom. With fundamental rights and civil liberties guaranteed by the state, the new constitution was universally acclaimed as the 'world's greatest experiment in liberal government'.
This idealistic birth of a new republic meant a clean break with a repressive past. And yet, barely twelve months later, the very makers ...
On 26th January 1950 India became a republic, shedding its last links with its colonial past and inaugurating a new era of liberty and freedom. With fundamental rights and civil liberties guaranteed by the state, the new constitution was universally acclaimed as the 'world's greatest experiment in liberal government'.
This idealistic birth of a new republic meant a clean break with a repressive past. And yet, barely twelve months later, the very makers ...






















