How India Made Its Constitution: A Guided Reading Through Five Landmark Works

The framing of India’s Constitution (adopted 26 January 1950) has inspired deep historical and analytical studies. We examine five seminal works – Granville Austin’s The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation (1966), B. Shiva Rao’s multi-volume Framing of India’s Constitution (Select Documents) (1968), Subhash C. Kashyap’s Our Constitution (1994), Madhav Khosla’s India’s Founding Moment (2020), and Rohit De & Ornit Shani’s Assembling India’s Constitution (2024) – each offering a distinct lens on India’s constitutional birth.

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