Bhatia, Udit (2023) The Pedagogical Account of Parliamentarism at India’s Founding. American Journal of Political Science. ISSN 1540-5907
Abstract
This article explores a distinctive approach to parliamentarism advanced by key figures from India’s founding period in response to their anxieties about concerns about the masses’ backwardness alongside a commitment to democratic self-rule. Both these orientations, one democratic and the other, suspicious of the peoples’ political capacities, existed alongside each other in tension, generating a dilemma: how could the seemingly backward masses facilitate the overthrow of their backwardness in a democratic process? The thinkers studied in this article responded, I argue, with a pedagogical conception of parliamentarism, which viewed parliament and legislators as bearing the function of preparing the masses for democratic citizenship. Their approach represented a critical departure from the ideal of a deliberative legislative assembly at the apex of the law-making process, while avoiding strategies of exclusion historically associated with parliamentarism.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Authors |
Keywords: | Democratic theory,Parliamentarism,Postcolonial Democracy |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Politics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2022 12:21 |
Last Modified: | 06 Dec 2024 00:22 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12768 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/ajps.12768 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:193675 |
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