{"product_id":"undermining-the-idea-of-india-gautam-patel-9781803090764","title":"Undermining the Idea of India","description":"\u003cb\u003eA searing manifesto for troubled times in India.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"India is improbable. By any measure of logic or reason, it should not be. Not in this form. And yet it is.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With this provocation, Justice Gautam Patel of the Bombay High Court sketches the exoskeleton of this improbability--the \"Constitutional\" idea of India. Justice Patel argues that the devolution of power is necessary for the survival of any liberal democracy, maintaining the idea that \"the right to choose one's own government is the right to dissent.\" Decrying the portrayal of politics as sport, Patel elucidates the strategies and tactics used by \"nimble\" governments to enforce a culture of \"broad-spectrum illiberalism.\" A champion of transparency in the judiciary, Patel argues that the Internet and the judiciary must serve as beacons in this age of precarity. A timely text that comes at a juncture where liberal democracies across the world are facing existential threats, \u003ci\u003eUndermining the Idea of India\u003c\/i\u003e is a searing manifesto for our troubled times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gautam Patel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1803090766\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781803090764\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seagull Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 4.20w x 0.50d","brand":"Gautam Patel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44074899243263,"sku":"9781803090764","price":9.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_62780123-0393-4ba8-b6e6-bd7cd9a25bf6.jpg?v=1685456424","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/undermining-the-idea-of-india-gautam-patel-9781803090764","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}