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Sandipto Dasgupta

A new book examines how India’s freedom movement impacted the country’s Constitution

An excerpt from ‘Legalising the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony’, by Sandipto Dasgupta.

Sandipto Dasgupta
· Aug 07, 2024 · 08:30 am
The Indian Constitution did not stem from a revolution but envisioned one. So why didn’t it happen?

Did anxiety about democratic processes leading to unforeseen use of political power deny the masses true authorial identity to a transformative script?

Sandipto Dasgupta
· Apr 09, 2019 · 05:30 pm