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70 Years of Indian
Constitution
Indian Constitution, a final treatise
on Governance &Fundamental Rights
In ancient times, law givers in India
A 2008 World Bank Working Paper
engaged in a quest for defining the
argued, “The main determinant of
principles of governance. The most
differences in across countries
are differences in economic
celebrated text of that period that
institutions. To solve the problem
dealt with the interlinked issues of
of development will entail reforming
governance, laws, and the powers and
these institutions.” Most people
duties of the king was undoubtedly
will agree, even market-oriented
the Arthasastra. Its author, Kautilya,
economists. Markets don’t work in
Prof Meenakshi Jain declared that he had drawn on earlier
isolation, but in a social and legal
treatises composed by former teachers
context that sets the infrastructure.
“for administering the earth.”
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