Why we have to be wary of calls for Indianisation

It is one thing to dig for traces of constitutionalism from fifth century B.C. or even prior, but it is an altogether different thing to hold that the present constitutional and legal system is un-Indian, and requires 'Indianisation' in terms of the particular traces of constitutionalism in ancient India with the purpose of developing a uniform value-system in the place of a composite constitutional culture, which we have adopted through our founding mothers and fathers, and which we have been developing through a transformative constitutionalism.
Why we have to be wary of calls for Indianisation

Dr M.P. Raju is an advocate, practising in the Supreme Court of India. He is also the author of India's Constitution: Roots, Values and Wrongs.

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