How provincial and princely politics around language and sovereignty shaped Indian Constitution’s making: A multi-part series
In the halls of the Constituent Assembly, language was a hotly debated issue, shaping several discussions all the way down to how States were named. In the first of this multi-part constitutional history series, we explore a brief history of provinces in newly independent India, their competing visions of nationhood, and what our legal imagination of language in today’s majoritarian India must borrow from this history.
Asra Hamid Rashid is a Hasrat Mohani Fellow for constitutional history at The Equals Project. She researches on the intersection of constitutional history and language.