Anticolonial movements of the twentieth century generated audacious ideas of freedom.
Following decolonisation, the challenge was to give institutional form to those ideas. Through an account of India’s anticolonial movement and constitution making, Legalising the Revolution, written by Sandipto Dasgupta, explores the unique promises, challenges, and contradictions of that task.
In contrast to the familiar liberal constitutional templates derived from the metropole, the book theorizes the distinctively postcolonial constitution through a synthesis of the history of decolonisation and constitutional theory.
The book excavates the unrealised futures imagined during decolonization. At the same time, through a critical account of the making of the postcolonial constitutional order, it offers keys to understanding the present crisis of that order.
Meet the speakers and chair:
Sandipto Dasgupta is Assistant Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research, and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
Mai Taha is an Assistant Professor in Human Rights at the Department of Sociology at LSE.
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