Acknowledgements
Introduction: The ‘Readerly’ Constitution: Dialogic Imaginations and Creative Ruptures
Kalpana Kannabiran
1. India’s Two Constitutions
Suryapratim Roy
2. Not Your Divyang: A Crip ‘Misreading’ of the Indian Constitution
Vijay Kishor Tiwari
3. The Constitution in Our Lives: An Experiential Reflection
Rumi Harish and Sunil Mohan R.
4. Patchwork Futures: Directive Principles of State Policy as an Archive of Constitutional Ambitions
Ghazala Jamil
5. Towards Equality: Unravelling Gender Troubles in Text and Interpretation
Kalpana Kannabiran
6. Constitutional Imaginaries Beyond the Human
Atreyo Banerjee and Shardha Rajam
7. How Do Tribal Communities Rethink the Constitution in Northeast India?
Struggles over Recognition, Autonomy, and Sovereignty
John Ginsuanmung Simte and Golan Suanzamung Naulak
8. Indigenous Resistance and Constitutional Reclamation in South Chhattisgarh
Akash Poyam
9. Kisan Andolan and the Possibilities of a New Constitutional Imagination
Navsharan Singh
10. Routinising the ‘Dharma’ of ‘Targeted’ Surveillance: Tracing the Constitutional Evolution of
Digital Surveillance in India
Nikita Sonavane
11. A Fantasy of Abolition: Imaginations of Criminal Law, State Coercion and Constitutionalism
Radhika Chitkara
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