German Lessons
Comparative Constitutionalism, States' Rights, and Federalist Imaginaries in Interwar India
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 2109334 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Devadas Pillai (0000-0003-0452-0575, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2023 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Fascículo | 4 |
| Páginas | 801-827 |
| Data de publicação | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Editora | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417523000191 |
| OpenAlex | W4383103842 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 1 |
| Referências citadas | 35 |
This article reveals the hold that German history and constitutionalism had on Indian federalists in the interwar period. A range of federalists from Indian princely states and British provinces, eager to see India become a federation rather than a unitary state fashioned on the English model, looked to Imperial Germany for constitutional lessons. They saw in German history and constitutionalism a federal solution to the so-called 'Indian problem,' wherein the rights of the states would be primary over those of individuals or groups. This German-inspired federal tradition, I argue, departed not only from political pluralism and association-based federalism, but also from the nationalist vision of placing individual rights over state rights. This article presents an alternative genealogy of comparative constitutional thought in India, and examines a post-national worldview that sidestepped the nation-states. By bringing a comparative approach to bear on political and constitutional histories, it escapes the national insularity that often characterizes such histories in colonial India, and places them in the comparative and global context of the interwar circulation of federalist ideas. German-inspired federal ideas of the period offer a counterpoint to corralling futuristic visions of India, and its founding, on the twin axes of anticolonial nationalism and popular sovereignty to the exclusion of state-centric ideas articulated by the princely states
Centralisation · Constitutionalism · Democracy · Economic history · Federalism · Federalist · German · Nation state · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law
Introduction to the study of the law of the constitution
Studies in the problem of sovereignty
Pluralism and the Personality of the State
What Is Global History?
Age of Entanglement
The Great Divergence
On the Nonglobalization of Ideas
The New Global History
The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917–1947
The Indian Princes and their States
Swiss Enchantment
Federalism, Representation, and Direct Democracy in 1920s India
The Making of the Indian Constitution
The confidence trap
Fragmenting the Nation
India’s Founding Moment
The Cosmopolitan Historiography of Twentieth-Century Federalism
The crisis of parliamentary democracy
Between the Many and the One
Entangled Histories, Entangled Worlds
Imaginary Futures and Colonial Internationalisms
Constitutional Ethnography
Is Comparative History Possible
Three concepts of internationalism
Federating the Raj
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| Citações por ano | 1 |
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| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 1 |