01208pab a2200145 454500008004000000100002000040245007700060260000900137300001600146362001000162520081300172650002500985650001801010773003401028180718b2004   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMenon, Nivedita  aCitizenship and the passive revolution: interpreting the first amendment  c2004  ap.1812-819.  a1 May  aModernity as has been argued, is a set of processes that can follow different sequences in different societies and at different historical conjunctures; in India unlike in the west, the two processes of modernity and democracy emerged almost simultaneously. This paper explores the dilemmas created by the 'different sequentiality' by focusing on one revealing moment - the 1951 Act that first amended by the Constitution, interpreted here as a landmark in the story of modernity in India. While the amendment was seen to limit individual rights it reflected primarily the imperatives of the modernising project envisaged by India's anti-imperialist elite that included the creation of a bourgeois democracy, the capitalist transformation of the economy and the establishment of social justice. - Reproduced.  aIndia - Constitution  aConstitutions  aEconomic and Political Weekly