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How Granville Austin beat Delhi babudom to write his book on the Indian Constitution
A friend of the historian, who died a week ago, recalls the time the American scholar spent in India doing research for this seminal work.
Vikram Raghavan
· Jul 13, 2014 · 07:30 am
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