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Assembling India’s Constitution: A New Democratic History

Assembling India’s Constitution: A New Democratic History

Name: Assembling India’s Constitution: A New Democratic History
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009330053
Price: 441.35 HKD
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Author: Rohit De; Ornit Shani
ISBN: 9781009330053

Edited by Rohit De · Ornit Shani

Cambridge University Press October 2025

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ISBN-13: 9781009330053
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: October 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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In this paradigm-shifting history, two leading historians of India re-examine the making of the Indian constitution from the perspective of the country's people. In a departure from dominant approaches that foreground the framing of the text within the Constituent Assembly, Ornit Shani and Rohit De instead demonstrate how it was shaped by diverse publics across India and beyond. They reveal multiple, parallel constitution-making processes underway across the subcontinent, highlighting how individuals and groups transformed constitutionalism into a medium of struggle and a tool for transformation. De and Shani argue that the deep sense of ownership the public assumed over the constitution became pivotal to the formation, legitimacy and endurance of India's democracy against arduous challenges and many odds. In highlighting the Indian case as a model for thinking through constitution making in plural societies, this is a vital contribution to constitutional and democratic history.

Introduction. A new history of India's constitution making

1. 'Our constitution'

2. Making the constitution a public affair

3. Competing constitutionalism: the princely states and the constitution

4. The emerging state and the constitution

5. The theatre of the assembly

6. The horizons of India's constitutional imagination: tribes and constitution making

Conclusion. An open site of struggle

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