TY - BOOK AU - Bhatia, Gautam, TI - The transformative constitution: a radical biography in nine acts SN - 9789353026844 PY - 2019/// CY - Noida PB - HarperCollins India KW - Constitutional history KW - Constitutional law N2 - "The Transformative Constitution by Gautam Bhatia draws on pre-Independence legal and political history to argue that the Constitution was intended to transform not merely the political status of Indians from subjects to citizens, but also the social relationships on which legal and political structures rested. He advances a novel vision of the Constitution, and of constitutional interpretation, which is faithful to its text, structure and history, and above all to its overarching commitment to political and social transformation."--- ER -