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Special issue on Madhav Khosla's India’s Founding Moment

Created 06 Dec 2021| Updated 05 Apr 2022 | 6 articles

This symposium reflects upon Madhav Khosla’s recent book, India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2020). The participants – Faisal Devji, Jan-Werner Müller, Lucia Rubinelli, Mahmood Mamdani, Sudipta Kaviraj – use the book as an opportunity to revisit the making of modern India and the global spread of democracy. The symposium includes a response essay by Khosla.

Edited by

Rosario López(University of Málaga)

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An Impossible Founding
Faisal Devji

Originally published in Global Intellectual History, Volume: 8, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2023) Special Section: Madhav Khosla's India's Founding Moment, Edited by: Rosario López, University of Málaga

Published online: 25 Oct 2021
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Can a Constitution Defend Itself?
Sudipta Kaviraj

Originally published in Global Intellectual History, Volume: 8, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2023) Special Section: Madhav Khosla's India's Founding Moment, Edited by: Rosario López, University of Málaga

Published online: 12 Jan 2022
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The Nation-State and its Minorities: Some Questions on Reading Madhav Khosla, India’s Founding Moment
Mahmood Mamdani

Originally published in Global Intellectual History, Volume: 8, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2023) Special Section: Madhav Khosla's India's Founding Moment, Edited by: Rosario López, University of Málaga

Published online: 22 Nov 2021
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The Constitution as a Pedagogical Project: Three Perils
(and How India Apparently Avoided Them)
Jan-Werner Müller

Originally published in Global Intellectual History, Volume: 8, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2023) Special Section: Madhav Khosla's India's Founding Moment, Edited by: Rosario López, University of Málaga

Published online: 25 Oct 2021
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Can Constitutions Make Democracy? Remarks on Madhav Khosla’s India’s Founding Moment
Lucia Rubinelli

Originally published in Global Intellectual History, Volume: 8, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2023) Special Section: Madhav Khosla's India's Founding Moment, Edited by: Rosario López, University of Málaga

Published online: 02 Sep 2021
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The Possibility of Modern India
Madhav Khosla

Originally published in Global Intellectual History, Volume: 8, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2023) Special Section: Madhav Khosla's India's Founding Moment, Edited by: Rosario López, University of Málaga

Published online: 25 Oct 2021
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