Arvind Elangovan on Tensions Within the Indian Constitution
Ideas of India
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We like to romanticize the constitutional moments, but what is hidden in all the romance is that it is a very long, drawn out process of negotiation. You need emissaries who can understand detail and who can understand language, but also have imagination through that negotiation process. Without that constitutional imagination, its just one more piece of legislation that the colonial government is imposing on its subjects,. And it's creating these elected positions. But those elected physicians don't have much autonomy.
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