After the Assembly: Constituting India

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'After the Assembly: Constituting India' commemorates  75 years  of the Indian Constitution, the longest living constitution in the global South. It tells the story of how the Indian Constitution was compiled through formal committees, as well as people’s voices, and how it has come to be owned by Indians in myriad ways.

To mark the 75th anniversary of the Constitution of India (1950), the collaborative exhibition ‘After the Assembly: Constituting India’ brings together an interactive display of a new digital research platform on the Indian Constituent Assembly debates (1946-49), alongside a range of archival documents including petitions and correspondence from civil society organisations and members of the public. 

These will be displayed together with short films, photographs, artists’ prints and other creative outputs produced through our collaborative research process as part of theAHRC funded project Pluralist Agreement and Constitutional Transformation (PACT). 

The exhibition tells the story of how the Indian Constitution came to be made in the late 1940s, and of contemporary expressions of the ownership and remaking of the constitution in India today by students, artists, and ordinary citizens

Exhibition team

• Curator: Dr Rochana Bajpai, Professor of Politics, SOAS University of London
• Designer: Oroon Das, independent design practitioner, New Delhi
• Exhibition advisor: Dr Nilanjan Sarkar, Deputy Director LSE South Asia Centre 
• Curatorial advisor: Dr Chaitanya Sambrani (Australian National University) 
• Project Coordinator: Alice Winters (SOAS/UCL).

Contributors

PACT team Dr Udit Bhatia (York),Dr Nicholas Cole (Oxford), Lauren Davis Jarnach (Oxford), Dr Manas Raturi (Oxford), Vineeth Krishna (Centre for Law and Policy Research), Professor Sudhir Krishnaswamy (National Law School of India University)
Animation: Shaaz Ahmed

Art prints: Shantibai, Vikrant Bhise, Shilpa Gupta, Riyas Komu