Assembling India’s Constitution
a new democratic history
$141.23
- Hardcover
371 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2025
Summary
Assembling a Nation: The People’s Constitution of India
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 constituti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781009330053 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1009330055 |
| Author: | Rohit De, Ornit Shani |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 371 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
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About The Author
Rohit De
Rohit De is 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 (2018), which won the Willard J. Hurst Prize (2019).
Ornit Shani is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at Haifa University. She is the author of How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise (2017), which won the Kamaladevi Chattophadyay New India Foundation Prize (2019).
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