About the Book: Indias Founding Moment : The Constitution Of A Most Surprising
Democracy
Britains justification for colonial rule in India stressed the impossibility of
Indian self-government. And the empire did its best to ensure this was the case,
impoverishing Indian subjects and doing little to improve their socioeconomic
reality. So when independence came, the cultivation of democratic citizenship
was a foremost challenge.Madhav Khosla explores the means Indias founders used
to foster a democratic ethos. They knew the people would need to learn ways of
citizenship, but the path to education did not lie in rule by a superior class
of men, as the British insisted. Rather,