Harsh Mander: The Constitution’s emancipatory promises on caste remain elusive

Constructively criticising the Constitution is imperative at a time when its survival is threatened by the Hindutva project.

Begum Aizaz Rasul: The only Muslim woman who signed India’s Constitution

Begum Aizaz Rasul was the only Muslim woman to sign India’s Constitution and a rare voice of reform in the Constituent ...
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Jan 2, 1976: When India’s Constitution was bent towards dictatorship

Independent India was not born into calm or cohesion. The Republic inherited from British rule a land scarred by Partition, ...
Jurist

India Supreme Court rejects petition challenging constitutionality of caste system

The Supreme Court of India declined to entertain a petition seeking to declare the country’s traditional caste system unconstitutional on Tuesday. The petition, filed under Article 32 of the ...

Republic Day 2026: Prem Behari Narain Raizada, the calligrapher behind India’s handwritten Constitution

Republic Day marks the adoption of India’s Constitution, but behind its iconic pages lies a forgotten story. While Dr. B. R.
The Conversation

The authoritarian leader’s playbook: how Narendra Modi captured India’s legal system and is rewriting the country’s history in his image

Sandhya Fuchs receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust, the Wenner Gren Foundation and the Swiss National Fund On a crisp winter morning in February 2023, I meet one of my South Delhi neighbours, a ...
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Dalit Christians in India protest denial of rights by government

A sign at a Dec. 8, 2006, hunger sit-in by Christian Dalits in New Delhi, India, displays the deep roots of the caste system in India. Dalits are low castes who perform menial jobs and are treated as ...