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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 142–153.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Touraj Atabaki In the historiography of Iranian constitutionalism and the constitutional revolution, the reformist movement is treated as a receptive movement crafted by the ideas originating chiefly from nineteenth-century Western Europe or Russia, with no dependencies on Asia or the Middle East...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 154–169.
Published: 01 May 2008
...: Modernity and Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire and Iran Fariba Zarinebaf any scholars consider the Iranian...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 42–43.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Eleanor Newbigin; Ornit Shani; Stephen Legg The essays in this special section make a significant intervention into debates about the evolution of democracy in South Asia by prompting us to rethink the role of constitutionalism in this process. They focus on three constitutional moments in early...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 66–82.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of this moment to foreground the often underappreciated tensions among colonialism, nationalism, and constitutionalism. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 B. N. Rau constitutionalism Indian constitution Government of India Act 1935 I would like to thank Eleanor Newbigin, Stephen Legg...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 106–125.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Allison Powers This essay examines how Du Bois’s critique of global political economy proceeds as a critique of American constitutionalism in his 1935 Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 . Analyzing how Du Bois reworks a set of Marxian concepts—phantasmagoria, fetish, and transubstantiation...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 421–433.
Published: 01 December 2020
... University Press 2020 federation sovereignty kingship republicanism imperial constitutionalism Constituent Assembly Federation, writes Frederick Cooper, was a potential “route out of empire.” 1 Cooper's account of French West African leaders' efforts to transform the French Empire...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 243–259.
Published: 01 August 2014
... . Coomaraswamy Radhika , “ Uses and Usurpation of Constitutional Ideology .” In Constitutionalism and Democracy: Transitions in the Contemporary World , edited by Greenberg Douglas Katz Stanley N. Wheatley Stephen C. Oliviero Melanie Beth , 159 – 71 . New York : Oxford University Press...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 314–335.
Published: 01 August 2014
...?filename=Ne120311WhoseAmicus.asp . Krishnaswamy Sudhir . Democracy and Constitutionalism in India: A Study of the Basic Structure Doctrine . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2011 . Mahapatra Dhananjay . “ NGOs, Teesta Spiced Up Gujarat Riot Incidents: SIT .” Times of India , 14...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 228–242.
Published: 01 August 2014
... to — if not exact reproduction of — the Government of India Act. The explicit persistence of the colonial constitutional structure — the fact of “colonial continuity,” to employ an oft-­used shorthand — is a central current in the life of postco- lonial constitutionalism...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 224–227.
Published: 01 August 2014
... a wide but intelligible range of possibilities within the phenomenon of postcolonial legalism. Constitutionalism and Social Transformation The key concern in all discussions of the legal-­constitutional framework of postcolonial politics...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (2): 360–376.
Published: 01 August 2005
...’ intelligence. will change the name to Majalleh-ye Mashru- A regular section in the journal is de- tiyat (Journal of Constitutionalism), otherwise we voted to the proceedings...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 222–235.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of understanding of the modern constitutionally bound parliament. 38 Sohrabi and Kasravi arrive at the conclusion that the establishment of the parliamentary body was initially a revival of the nonreligious court system that pushed Islam as the public religion of society to the margins of modern rule...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 266–280.
Published: 01 August 2021
... by Duke University Press 2021 Afghanistan Ottoman Empire British India Islamic law constitutionalism On the morning of August 17, 2019, a remarkable gathering of intellectuals coalesced in a modestly sized auditorium on the sprawling, tree-lined campus of Kabul University, Afghanistan's...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (1): 91–97.
Published: 01 May 1995
... nation-state building, with a popular democratic seem less peculiar if “Constitutionalism” is under- agenda, emerged with the revolutionary movement stood as the culmination of an ongoing reform in the northern province of Gilan. Drawing on movement aimed at strengthening the state...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 May 2016
... in universalist terms. In a special section on Indian constitutionalism, authors address the relationship between law and politics and the new foundations of political society that were established in the wake of postcolonial con- stitution making. Like other constitutions of the time, the Indian...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1985) 5 (2): 39–42.
Published: 01 August 1985
... and its However, it is debatable whether this is indeed stability or associates. Today, the NPMHR and democratic rights merely suppression. Ethnic identities are known to subside organizations are challenging the constitutionality of the and then revive despite all odds. Hence, the claims...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 249–253.
Published: 01 August 2021
... that included nation-state formation, development of international laws and diplomacy, colonial rule, constitutionalism, and centralization. Afghanistan, the Ottoman Empire, and other Muslim polities were not indolent recipients of European policies. The exchanges and the networks among scholars, lawyers...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2001) 21 (1-2): 132.
Published: 01 August 2001
...) and "Revolution and State Culture: The Circle of Justice and Constitutionalism in 1906 Iran," in State/culture 2002). (Cornell, 1999). Jennifer L. Jenkins is Assistant Professor of History at Washington...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 435–436.
Published: 01 December 2014
... significance of the interwar era, and later the Cold War era, for mapping trajecto- ries of thought and activism in the non-­Western world. Meanwhile, “Postcolonial Legalism” addressed postcolonial constitutionalism as a key site for exploring the discrepant political histories of transition...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 34–45.
Published: 01 May 2011
... and others with the des- a full-­fledged Islamic theocracy, ruled by the potic shah. The leading cleric who had opposed clerics, was established. constitutionalism and favored the establishment of a religious state based on Sharia was eventu...