Assembling India's Constitution

In this paradigm-shifting history, two leading historians of India re-examine the making of the Indian constitution from the perspective of the nation's people. They argue that the deep sense of ownership diverse publics assumed over the constitution became pivotal to the formation, legitimacy and endurance of India's democracy.

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).