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By The People, For The People

Outlining four landmark Constitutional cases, the author combines the perspectives of a lawyer and a historian.

Rohit De, an assistant professor of History at Yale University, has written a remarkable and unusual book on the role that ordinary citizens played in the development of Indian constitutional law. Usually, legal scholars adopt a results-oriented approach to study the development of constitutional law. This essentially means that the focus is more

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