The book offers a different approach to scholarly accounts that focus largely on the Constituent Assembly, and the debates ...

Ornit Shani Ornit Shani is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Haifa. She is the author of How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the making of the Universal Franchise and ...

Associate Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of A People’s Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic and the co-author of Assembling India’s Constitution: A ...