39 – Rethinking Constitutionalism in South Asian Political Thought and Intellectual History
This panel provides a forum for new thinking on the history of constitutionalism in South Asia across the 1947 divide. In particular, this panel seeks to connect recent work on South Asian political thought and intellectual history to new interpretations of constitution-making, the law, and imaginations of the future. The papers thus interrogate both the force of ideas and the contingent ways in which they were put into action in mid 20th century South Asia. In doing so, the panel situates twentieth-century South Asia as a key global site of ideological innovation and constitutional contestation.
