Chapter 5

1 Austin, The Indian Constitution, p. 27. See also J. S. Mill, ‘Considerations on Representative Government’, in his On Liberty and Other Essays (Oxford: OUP, 1991); Andrew Heywood, Political Theory: An Introduction (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004); Richard Clayton and Huge Tomlinson, The Law of Human Rights, Vol. 1 (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000); Chris Brown, ‘Human Rights’, in John Baylis and Steve Smith (Eds), The Globalization of World and Politics (New Delhi: OUP, 2005); Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen, India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity (Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995).

2 There may not be a settled position on what ‘fundamental rights’ are. They could be understood as individual rights, such as the right to ...

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