00872pab a2200145 454500008004000000100001700040245008100057260000900138300001600147362001100163520048200174650002200656650001400678773003400692180718b2004   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aJha, Shefali  aRepresentation and its epiphanies: a reading of constituent assembly debates  c2004  ap.4357-360.  a25 Sep  aThe focus in this paper is on the Constituent Assembly debates on the nature of electoral mechanisms that would ideally translate people's will into governmental decisions. What assumptions did these debates make about the meaning of representation? Members of the Constituent Assembly were concerned especially with issues of representation given the accusation that the Assembly was an unrepresentative body, elected as it was on an extremely limited franchise. - Reproduced.  aElections - India  aElections  aEconomic and Political Weekly