Broke for the next month, but worth it.

N/2. The first session featured insightful new papers by Prof Sudhir Krishnaswamy NLSIU “Deliberation in Indian Constitution-Making: Clarifying Ambedkar’s Role” and Vineeth Krishna E “Against the Constituent Assembly: M.N. Roy and B.R. Ambedkar on Constitution-Making”

N/4: An excellent book panel on Udit Bhatia manuscript, Democracy’s Unfinished Business, with brilliant comments from discussants Elena Ziliotti Elena Ziliotti, Loubna El Amine Loubna El Amine لبنى الأمين & Vatsal Naresh.

Udit Bhatia Elena Ziliotti Loubna El Amine لبنى الأمين N/5: Day 1 ended with an inspiring keynote lecture by Professor Richard Albert 'Constitution without Revolution: A Theory of Decolonial Constitutionalism’

Udit Bhatia Elena Ziliotti Loubna El Amine لبنى الأمين Richard Albert N/6. Day 2 of our conference had a series of thought-provoking  papers on  on communal quotas, caste, gender, and democratic decline by Shireen Azam, Dr Alexander Hudson, @Surbhi_karwa, Mathew Idiculla and Asang Wankhede

Udit Bhatia Elena Ziliotti Loubna El Amine لبنى الأمين Richard Albert Shireen Azam Surbhi Karwa Asang Wankhede N/7. We also watched a screening of "Constitutional Pledges" with filmmaker Shaaz Ahmed.  The film is available on our Youtube page youtu.be/ZEAUFsxIBJs, alongside our exhibition film The Constitution & The People which can be viewed here: youtu.be/qElNyRqiWII

Udit Bhatia Elena Ziliotti Loubna El Amine لبنى الأمين Richard Albert Shireen Azam Surbhi Karwa Asang Wankhede N/8. The final session of the conference featured PACT project’s digital platform on the Indian Constitution presented by Nicholas Cole and Lauren Davis

At a time when the Constitution feels more urgent than ever, the now-concluded pactproject Exhibitio at SOAS University of London was a profound reflection on pluralism & political imagination. Grateful to curators Prof. Rochana Bajpai & Prof. Nilanjan Sarkar. LSE South Asia Centre

Was #socialist & #secular an intrinsic part of the Indian Constitution or added to the preamble in 1976 thus significant ? Many such Qs tackled in addition to deepening the understanding of a constitution that acts as a glue to a country of 1.4 billion - with 22 official

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Assembling India's Constitution out in the UK and Europe @sh

20 years of the RTI Act- a law that has empowered people to ask questions & hold governments accountable. India’s RTI Act is the most extensively used transparency law in the world- 60 lakh info requests filed every year. Right to Know, Right to Live!✊🏽 हम जानेंगे, हम जीयेंगे ✊🏽

Job! Thanks to a generous donation from anonymous donors and matching funding from UNSW, we are advertising for 2 x two-year postdocs in History. Any region. Any period. Any method. external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5355… Connection to Australia or NZ, via residency or education is required.

How are geopolitics reshaping global finance? Join us & The Brookings Institution on 20 October for the launch of the 2025 Geneva Report on the World Economy. Speakers: Anusha Chari @unc_econ UNC Kenan-Flagler, Nathan Converse Federal Reserve, Arnaud Mehl European Central Bank, Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

Penn State University and the Global Asias Initiative invites applicants for its annual Global Asias Summer Institute, themed “Vitalizing Global Asias: Artifacts & Archives,” to be held June 8-12, 2026. Apply by Nov. 3, 2025: sites.psu.edu/vergeglobalasi…

Rochana Bajpai please circulate to your students

Francesca Orsini has done more for Hindi than many so called lovers of Hindi. To not allow entry to a true lover of languages and literatures of this region, someone who has always told its stories with care, is deeply concerning and heartbreaking.

Tenure-track position at the College of Wooster. The position is half Urban Studies, half Sociology—we are looking for an Urban Sociologist, doing research on housing or transportation. Deadline: Dec. 1, 2025. wooster.edu/job/assistant-… #urban #sociology

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Read on for an excellent discussion of the more-than-liberal foundations of secularism enshrined in the Indian constitution.