Member Publications

These are PACT members’ publications on the Indian constitution and constitutional theory.

Bajpai, Rochana. 2000. “Constituent Assembly Debates and Minority Rights.” Economic and Political Weekly 35 (21/22): 1837-1845.

Bajpai, Rochana. 2002a. “The conceptual vocabularies of secularism and minority rights in India.” Journal of  Political Ideologies 7 (2): 179-197.

Bajpai, Rochana. 2002b. “Minority Rights in the Indian Constituent Assembly Debates 1946-1950.” Working Paper No. 30. Oxford Department of International Development.

Bajpai, Rochana. 2003. “Values in Political Rhetoric.” Seminar (524).

Bajpai, Rochana. 2008. “Political Representation and the Making of the Indian Constitution.” In Politics and Ethics of the Indian Constitution, edited by Rajeev Bhargava, 354-391. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Bajpai, Rochana. 2010. “Cultural Rights of Minorities during Constitution-making: A Re-reading.” In Religion, Community and Development, edited by G. Jodhka Mahajan, Surinder, 282-300. New Delhi: Routledge.

Bajpai, Rochana. 2010b. “Rhetoric as Argument: Social Justice and Affirmative Action in India, 1990.” Modern Asian Studies 44 (4): 675-708.

Bajpai, Rochana. 2011. Debating difference : group rights and liberal democracy in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Bajpai, Rochana. 2014. “Reframing Secularism: Religion, Nation and Minorities in India.” In Confronting Secularism in Europe and India : Legitimacy and Disenchantment in Contemporary Times, edited by Brian Black, 21-38. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

Bajpai, Rochana. 2017a. “Secularism and Multiculturalism in India: Some Reflections.” In European Challenges, Asian Approaches, 204-227. Edinburgh University Press.

Bajpai, Rochana. 2017b. “Why did India choose pluralism? Lessons from a post-colonial state.”  (Accounting for Change in Diverse Societies).

Bajpai, Rochana. 2019. “Multiculturalism in India: An Exception?” In Comparative Perspectives on Theory and Practice, edited by Richard T. Ashcroft and Mark Bevir, 127-149. University of California Press.

Bajpai, Rochana. 2020. “Liberalisms in India.” The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory, Oxford University Press.

Bajpai, Rochana. 2021. “Religious Pluralism and the State in India: Toward a Typology.” Negotiating Democracy and Religious Pluralism: India, Pakistan, and Turkey, edited by Sudipta Kaviraj and Vatsal Naresh, Oxford University Press.

Bajpai, Rochana. 2022. “Pluralizing Pluralism: Lessons from, and for, India.” The Review of Faith & International Affairs 20 (1): 27-42.

Bhatia, Udit. 2018. “Precautions in a Democratic Experiment: The Nexus between Political Power and Competence.” In Constituent Assemblies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bhatia, Udit. 2020. “Cracking the whip: the deliberative costs of strict party discipline.” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 23 (2): 254-279.

Bhatia, Udit. 2021. “What’s the Party Like? The Status of the Political Party in Anti-Defection Jurisdictions.” Law and Philosophy 40 (3): 305-334.

Bhatia, Udit. 2023. “The Pedagogical Account of Parliamentarism at India’s Founding.” American Journal of Political Science 00 (0): 1–13.

Krishna, Vineeth. 2018a. “Framers of India’s Constitution were divided on representative government for Delhi.“ Caravan Magazine.

Krishna, Vineeth. 2018b. “India’s founders gave us our Constitution. We must prove to them that we can keep it.“ The Print.

Krishnaswamy, Sudhir. 2009. Democracy and Constitutionalism in India: A Study of the Basic Structure Doctrine. Oxford University Press.

Krishnaswamy, Sudhir. 2010. “Constitutional Durability.” Seminar (615).

Krishnaswamy, Sudhir. 2015. “Constitutional Federalism in the Indian Supreme Court.” In Unstable Constitutionalism: Law and Politics in South Asia, edited by Madhav Khosla and Mark Tushnet, In Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy, 355-380. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Krishnaswamy, Sudhir. 2019. “A Qualified Hope.” In A Qualified Hope: The Indian Supreme Court and Progressive Social Change, edited by Gerald N. Rosenberg, Shishir Bail and Sudhir Krishnaswamy, In Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy, i-i. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Krishnaswamy, Sudhir. Krishnaswamy, Sudhir, and Madhav Khosla. 2008. “Reading A K Thakur vs Union of India: Legal Effect and Significance.” Economic and Political Weekly 43 (29): 53-60.

Krishnaswamy, Sudhir. 2010. “Military Power and the Constitution.” Seminar (611).

Krishnaswamy, Sudhir; Belgaumkar, Manavi. 2011. “Prafull Goradia vs. Union of India (2011) 2 SCC 568 3.” Journal of Indian Law and Society 3 (Monsoon): 337-343.

Krishnaswamy, Sudhir; Krishna, Vineeth. 2022. “Subhas Chandra Bose’s political ideas were always clear, not his constitutional imagination.“ The Print.