17 Jul – 20 Sep 2025

Exhibition and academic resources on constitution-making have generally focused on cases from the global North, and on the role of founding fathers, often privileged men. The role of collective practices of petition, debate and protest by ordinary citizens and marginalised groups in the making of constitutions, and their remaking over time, remains largely invisible.

As 2025 marks the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of India, this exhibition brings together an interactive display of the ‘Pluralist Agreement and Constitutional Transformation’ (PACT) project, with short films, photographs, and other creative outputs produced through our collaborative research process alongside rare original archival documents, copies of petitions, letters and other correspondence from members of the public and civil society organisations, and contemporary expressions of the ownership and remaking of the Constitution in India today.

Pluralist Agreement and Constitutional Transformation (PACT) is funded by the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). PACT is led by SOAS University of London, and in collaboration with researchers at the University of Oxford, University of York, National Law School of India University and the Centre for Law and Policy Research, India.