This discussion was taking place in a class. Read the various
arguments and state which of these do you agree with and why.
Jayesh: I still think that our Constitution is only a borrowed
document.
Saba: Do you mean to say that there is nothing Indian in it? But is
there such a thing as Indian and western in the case of values and
ideas? Take equality between men and women. What is western
about it? And even if it is, should we reject it only because it is
western?
Jayesh: What I mean is that after fighting for independence from
the British, did we not adopt their system of parliamentary
government?
Neha: You forget that when we fought the British, we were not
against the British as such, we were against the principle of
colonialism. That has nothing to do with adopting a system of
government that we wanted, wherever it came from.