All faiths need a founding text. To continue believing in the idea of a secular Indian democracy, it is imperative the text that formed this nation be examined.
This conference for social science educators did exactly that—with speakers ranging from Romila Thapar to Gautam Bhatia, Nandini Sundar to AG Noorani, Vrinda Grover to Krishna Kumar, Siddharth Varadarajan to Babloo Loitongbam, among others. The talks were supplemented with teacher workshops on effective ways of bringing the Constitution into the classroom by the likes of Urvashi Butalia, Sambhaji Bhagat and experienced teaching practitioners.
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Contents
Nationalism and the Constitution
ROMILA THAPAR
Constitutionalism and India's Nationalist Imagination
VALERIAN RODRIGUES
The Constitution and the Judiciary
AG NOORANI
Rehabilitating Secularism: An Intellectual, Ethical and Political Approach
RAJEEV BHARGAVA
From Swadeshi to the Indian Constitution: Nandalal Bose and the Nationalist Project
R. SIVA KUMAR
The Transformative Constitution
GAUTAM BHATIA
The Making of the Fifth and Sixth Schedules
NANDINI SUNDAR
Teaching the Constitution
KRISHNA KUMAR
Arrest without Trial
ROMILA THAPAR
Public Interest Litigations
VRINDA GROVER
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