Rohit De
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 287040 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rohit De |
| NOMBRES | Rohit |
| APELLIDO | De |
| FIRMA | DE R |
| AFILIACIONES | Yale University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Assembling India's Constitution
The framing of India's constitution was a critical event in the global history of both constitution-making and democracy. Conventionally it has been analysed as a founding moment. Its success against multiple odds has been explained as resulting from a vision and consensus among the elite over what would become a pedagogical text for an 'ignorant' and undemocratic public. This focus among academics on political elites, and an underlying assumptio…
The Possibilities of Anti-Colonial Constitutionalism – Commentary on State of West Bengal v. Anwar Ali Sarkar and others AIR 1952 SC 75
The case of Anwar Ali Sarkar has been a founding precedent for equality jurisprudence in India and elsewhere. The case is most cited for the two-step reasonable classification test. Yet over the years, it has become increasingly clear that there are limitations to the test as a doctrinal framework to adjudicate equality. This article is a comment on Tarunabh Khaitan’s accompanying rewritten judgment on Anwar Ali Sarkar, which seeks to offer a mor…
A People's Constitution
I am grateful to Professor Mathew John for his deep and rigorous engagement with A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic , and to the editors of this journal for giving me the opportunity to be in dialogue with some of the questions he raises
New histories of political violence and revolutionary terrorism in modern South Asia
This book round table discusses two recent monographs on political violence and revolutionary terrorism in late colonial India, Kama Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text (2015) and Durba Ghosh’s Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947 (2017). Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India uncovers how revolutionaries in Punjab and northern India res…
Cows and Constitutionalism
Cows have been the subject of political petitioning in South Asia for over a hundred years. This article examines the changing relationship between communities and the state in India through the transformation of petitioning practices-from 'monster' petitions, to postcard campaigns and constitutional writs-by the proponents and opponents of the cow protection movement from the late nineteenth century through to the first decades of independence. …
Petitioning and Political Cultures in South Asia
On 4 May 2014, as a tumultuous general election in India drew to a close, theIndian Expressnewspaper published a column by Tavleen Singh, with the headline 'No more petitioners: no more petitioners'. The column went on to quote P. Chidambaran, the outgoing finance minister of the defeated Congress government, who diagnosed a historical shift in the mentality of the Indian electorate. 'India has moved on,' Chidambaran was reported as saying, 'from…
Sedition, Securitization, Sexuality
In this article, Inderpal Grewal and Rohit De discuss the history of the application of India’s law against sedition in relation to questions of sexuality and gender. The conversation between them frames the project of modernity and the state in each of these two scholars’ work, and the ways in which questions of modernity intersect those of “national” and “anti-national” subjectivation. Here, they are interested in how modernity has been formula…
A People's Constitution
A republic of petty bureaucrats
Constitutional Antecedents
This chapter focuses on the antecedents of the Indian Constitution. It first examines the various charters and laws that established the structure of power in colonial India from 1600 to 1947. It then considers the attempts by Indian groups during the freedom struggle to draw up constitutions or articulate claims against the State, before turning to a discussion of constitutional practice in colonial India. The article treats the Indian Constitut…
South Asian Legal Traditions
Commodities must be controlled’
It was a hot afternoon on 10 April 1950, in the town of Chapra in the eastern Indian province of Bihar. As most people had retired indoors to avoid the heat, the women's clothing store run by Kedar Nath had suddenly become a hive of activity. His munib (accountant) had gone home early on receiving news of the sudden illness of his son, and his shop had been visited by the local Magistrate and the Deputy Superintendent of Police, the leading figur…
Rebellion, Dacoity, and Equality
Did the promulgation of the Indian constitution on 26 January 1950 make a difference to the lives of most Indians? This article argues that contrary to existing scholarly and popular belief, the adoption of a written constitution with a bill of rights and judicial review transformed the relationship between the citizen and the state and emerged as a new field of practice. It does so by mapping the growth of judicial review of executive action thr…
A Peripatetic World Court” Cosmopolitan Courts, Nationalist Judges and the Indian Appeal to the Privy Council
In early 1943, Lord Wilfred Green, the Master of Rolls and the head of the Chancery Division of the British judiciary, authored a secret memorandum proposing that the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council become a “peripatetic court” that would travel throughout the British Empire. This article explores the origins and politics of this proposal to provide a critical re-description of the role of the Privy Council and the circulation of law with…
The Two Husbands of Vera Tiscenko
On June 27, 1940, Vera Tiscenko, a Polish actress formerly with the Moscow Arts Theatre, “of her own free will and after due deliberation” embraced the Islamic faith at the Nakoda Mosque at 19 Chowringee Road, Calcutta. Vera Tiscenko's journey from Moscow to colonial Calcutta was a long and tortuous one. Fleeing the country after the revolution, Vera settled in Berlin where she married a Russian émigré, Eugene Tiscenko. Over the next few years th…
Mumtaz Bibi's broken heart
This article investigates the formation of a political consensus between conservative ulama, Muslim reformers, nationalist politicians and women's organisations, which led to the enactment of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act in 1939. The Act was a radical piece of social legislation that gave South Asian Muslim women greater rights for divorce than those enjoyed by other women in India and Britain. Instead of placing women's rights and Isl…
Mumtaz Bibi's broken heart
This article investigates the formation of a political consensus between conservative ulama, Muslim reformers, nationalist politicians and women's organisations, which led to the enactment of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act in 1939. The Act was a radical piece of social legislation that gave South Asian Muslim women greater rights for divorce than those enjoyed by other women in India and Britain. Instead of placing women's rights and Isl…
Petitioning and Political Cultures in South Asia
On 4 May 2014, as a tumultuous general election in India drew to a close, theIndian Expressnewspaper published a column by Tavleen Singh, with the headline 'No more petitioners: no more petitioners'. The column went on to quote P. Chidambaran, the outgoing finance minister of the defeated Congress government, who diagnosed a historical shift in the mentality of the Indian electorate. 'India has moved on,' Chidambaran was reported as saying, 'from…
The Two Husbands of Vera Tiscenko
On June 27, 1940, Vera Tiscenko, a Polish actress formerly with the Moscow Arts Theatre, “of her own free will and after due deliberation” embraced the Islamic faith at the Nakoda Mosque at 19 Chowringee Road, Calcutta. Vera Tiscenko's journey from Moscow to colonial Calcutta was a long and tortuous one. Fleeing the country after the revolution, Vera settled in Berlin where she married a Russian émigré, Eugene Tiscenko. Over the next few years th…
Cows and Constitutionalism
Cows have been the subject of political petitioning in South Asia for over a hundred years. This article examines the changing relationship between communities and the state in India through the transformation of petitioning practices-from 'monster' petitions, to postcard campaigns and constitutional writs-by the proponents and opponents of the cow protection movement from the late nineteenth century through to the first decades of independence. …
Commodities must be controlled’
It was a hot afternoon on 10 April 1950, in the town of Chapra in the eastern Indian province of Bihar. As most people had retired indoors to avoid the heat, the women's clothing store run by Kedar Nath had suddenly become a hive of activity. His munib (accountant) had gone home early on receiving news of the sudden illness of his son, and his shop had been visited by the local Magistrate and the Deputy Superintendent of Police, the leading figur…
Rebellion, Dacoity, and Equality
Did the promulgation of the Indian constitution on 26 January 1950 make a difference to the lives of most Indians? This article argues that contrary to existing scholarly and popular belief, the adoption of a written constitution with a bill of rights and judicial review transformed the relationship between the citizen and the state and emerged as a new field of practice. It does so by mapping the growth of judicial review of executive action thr…
A Peripatetic World Court” Cosmopolitan Courts, Nationalist Judges and the Indian Appeal to the Privy Council
In early 1943, Lord Wilfred Green, the Master of Rolls and the head of the Chancery Division of the British judiciary, authored a secret memorandum proposing that the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council become a “peripatetic court” that would travel throughout the British Empire. This article explores the origins and politics of this proposal to provide a critical re-description of the role of the Privy Council and the circulation of law with…
A republic of petty bureaucrats
Assembling India's Constitution
The framing of India's constitution was a critical event in the global history of both constitution-making and democracy. Conventionally it has been analysed as a founding moment. Its success against multiple odds has been explained as resulting from a vision and consensus among the elite over what would become a pedagogical text for an 'ignorant' and undemocratic public. This focus among academics on political elites, and an underlying assumptio…
New histories of political violence and revolutionary terrorism in modern South Asia
This book round table discusses two recent monographs on political violence and revolutionary terrorism in late colonial India, Kama Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text (2015) and Durba Ghosh’s Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947 (2017). Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India uncovers how revolutionaries in Punjab and northern India res…
Mumtaz Bibi's broken heart
This article investigates the formation of a political consensus between conservative ulama, Muslim reformers, nationalist politicians and women's organisations, which led to the enactment of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act in 1939. The Act was a radical piece of social legislation that gave South Asian Muslim women greater rights for divorce than those enjoyed by other women in India and Britain. Instead of placing women's rights and Isl…
The Two Husbands of Vera Tiscenko
On June 27, 1940, Vera Tiscenko, a Polish actress formerly with the Moscow Arts Theatre, “of her own free will and after due deliberation” embraced the Islamic faith at the Nakoda Mosque at 19 Chowringee Road, Calcutta. Vera Tiscenko's journey from Moscow to colonial Calcutta was a long and tortuous one. Fleeing the country after the revolution, Vera settled in Berlin where she married a Russian émigré, Eugene Tiscenko. Over the next few years th…
Commodities must be controlled’
It was a hot afternoon on 10 April 1950, in the town of Chapra in the eastern Indian province of Bihar. As most people had retired indoors to avoid the heat, the women's clothing store run by Kedar Nath had suddenly become a hive of activity. His munib (accountant) had gone home early on receiving news of the sudden illness of his son, and his shop had been visited by the local Magistrate and the Deputy Superintendent of Police, the leading figur…
Rebellion, Dacoity, and Equality
Did the promulgation of the Indian constitution on 26 January 1950 make a difference to the lives of most Indians? This article argues that contrary to existing scholarly and popular belief, the adoption of a written constitution with a bill of rights and judicial review transformed the relationship between the citizen and the state and emerged as a new field of practice. It does so by mapping the growth of judicial review of executive action thr…
A Peripatetic World Court” Cosmopolitan Courts, Nationalist Judges and the Indian Appeal to the Privy Council
In early 1943, Lord Wilfred Green, the Master of Rolls and the head of the Chancery Division of the British judiciary, authored a secret memorandum proposing that the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council become a “peripatetic court” that would travel throughout the British Empire. This article explores the origins and politics of this proposal to provide a critical re-description of the role of the Privy Council and the circulation of law with…
South Asian Legal Traditions
Constitutional Antecedents
This chapter focuses on the antecedents of the Indian Constitution. It first examines the various charters and laws that established the structure of power in colonial India from 1600 to 1947. It then considers the attempts by Indian groups during the freedom struggle to draw up constitutions or articulate claims against the State, before turning to a discussion of constitutional practice in colonial India. The article treats the Indian Constitut…
A People's Constitution
A republic of petty bureaucrats
New histories of political violence and revolutionary terrorism in modern South Asia
This book round table discusses two recent monographs on political violence and revolutionary terrorism in late colonial India, Kama Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text (2015) and Durba Ghosh’s Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947 (2017). Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India uncovers how revolutionaries in Punjab and northern India res…
Cows and Constitutionalism
Cows have been the subject of political petitioning in South Asia for over a hundred years. This article examines the changing relationship between communities and the state in India through the transformation of petitioning practices-from 'monster' petitions, to postcard campaigns and constitutional writs-by the proponents and opponents of the cow protection movement from the late nineteenth century through to the first decades of independence. …
Petitioning and Political Cultures in South Asia
On 4 May 2014, as a tumultuous general election in India drew to a close, theIndian Expressnewspaper published a column by Tavleen Singh, with the headline 'No more petitioners: no more petitioners'. The column went on to quote P. Chidambaran, the outgoing finance minister of the defeated Congress government, who diagnosed a historical shift in the mentality of the Indian electorate. 'India has moved on,' Chidambaran was reported as saying, 'from…
Sedition, Securitization, Sexuality
In this article, Inderpal Grewal and Rohit De discuss the history of the application of India’s law against sedition in relation to questions of sexuality and gender. The conversation between them frames the project of modernity and the state in each of these two scholars’ work, and the ways in which questions of modernity intersect those of “national” and “anti-national” subjectivation. Here, they are interested in how modernity has been formula…
A People's Constitution
I am grateful to Professor Mathew John for his deep and rigorous engagement with A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic , and to the editors of this journal for giving me the opportunity to be in dialogue with some of the questions he raises
The Possibilities of Anti-Colonial Constitutionalism – Commentary on State of West Bengal v. Anwar Ali Sarkar and others AIR 1952 SC 75
The case of Anwar Ali Sarkar has been a founding precedent for equality jurisprudence in India and elsewhere. The case is most cited for the two-step reasonable classification test. Yet over the years, it has become increasingly clear that there are limitations to the test as a doctrinal framework to adjudicate equality. This article is a comment on Tarunabh Khaitan’s accompanying rewritten judgment on Anwar Ali Sarkar, which seeks to offer a mor…
Assembling India's Constitution
The framing of India's constitution was a critical event in the global history of both constitution-making and democracy. Conventionally it has been analysed as a founding moment. Its success against multiple odds has been explained as resulting from a vision and consensus among the elite over what would become a pedagogical text for an 'ignorant' and undemocratic public. This focus among academics on political elites, and an underlying assumptio…
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