After the Assembly: Constituting India

Rochana Bajpai; Chaitanya Sambrani; Nilanjan Sarkar; Oroon Das; Alice Winters

After the Assembly: Constituting India

Rochana Bajpai (Other), Chaitanya Sambrani^* (Other), Nilanjan Sarkar (Other), Oroon Das (Designer), Alice Winters (Other)

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Art & Design

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'After the Assembly: Constituting India' commemorates 75 years of the Indian Constitution, the longest living constitution in the global South. It tells the story of how the Indian Constitution was compiled through formal committees, as well as people’s voices, and how it has come to be owned by Indians in myriad ways.

‘After the Assembly: Constituting India’ brings together an interactive display of a new digital research platform on the Indian Constituent Assembly debates (1946-49), alongside a range of archival documents including petitions and correspondence from civil society organisations and members of the public.

The exhibition tells the story of how the Indian Constitution came to be made in the late 1940s, and of contemporary expressions of the ownership and remaking of the constitution in India today by students, artists, and ordinary citizens.

“After the Assembly"s exhibition team comprises SOAS’s Professor Rochana Bajpai (lead), Oroon Das (designer), Dr Nilanjan Sarkar (LSE ) Dr Chaitanya Sambrani (ANU) with contributions from colleagues across India the UK. It was produced through "Pluralist Agreement and Constitutional Transformation (PACT)", a three-year research project funded by UKRI-AHRC.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	London, UK
Publisher	University of London
Publication status	Published - 17 Jul 2025

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