'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.
To mark the 75th anniversary of the Constitution of India (1950), the collaborative exhibition ‘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.
These will be displayed together with short films, photographs, artists’ prints and other creative outputs produced through our collaborative research process as part of theAHRC funded project Pluralist Agreement and Constitutional Transformation (PACT).
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
