The making of the Constitution animated Indians’ imaginative concerns far beyond what we have been accustomed to assume. The Indian public engaged with the Constitution by making suggestions both practical and theoretical. They spoke iteratively about means of securing democracy, about the unity of India, about a workable Constitution, a universal franchise and about their rights. As their suggestions demonstrate, Indians were thinking beyond liberal rights: they spoke in terms of their entitlements, enforceability, enhancing capabilities and positive freedoms. Publics from all ranks of society immersed themselves in Constitution-making. India’s poor and dispossessed were significant actors in the process. The...
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