Anmol Jain

Cover of the Verfassungsbook "Indian Constitutionalism at Crossroads: 2014-2024". The Cover is based an map created by Arun Ganesh.

Publication day! 💫

Our Verfassungsbook “Indian Constitutionalism at Crossroads: 2014-2024”, edited by ANMOL JAIN (@anmoljain-law.bsky.social) and TANJA HERKLOTZ (@tanjaherklotz.bsky.social) is now available in print and online! 📚

Check it out now! verfassungsblog.de/books/

03.07.2025 10:26 — 👍 14    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 1

Thoughts on the Supreme Court’s approach in the cases of Ranveer Allahbadia and Dr Sunil Kumar Singh and what it says about Indian free speech doctrine. I show how the Court’s approach is questionable on many grounds as it prefaces judicial paternalism and moral populism in decision making.

05.03.2025 00:42 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Waiting for the People — Harvard University Press An original reconstruction of how the debates over peoplehood defined Indian anticolonial thought, and a bold new framework for theorizing the global career of democracy.Indians, their former British ...

A great resource to explore Mathew’s argument in detail is this recent work by @nsultan.bsky.social: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

25.02.2025 15:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He argues that a complete understanding of decolonisation politics in India cannot be studied without exploring other ideas, such as Gandhian reliance on the idea of self.

25.02.2025 15:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Mathew John argues how both the liberal progressivist narrative and cultural grand narrative about India’s constitutional journey treat the question of sovereignty from the similar Western/colonial framing of self identity.

25.02.2025 15:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Democratic Constitutionalism in India and the Blandishments of Grand Narratives — IACL-IADC Blog Mathew JOHN This timely and engaging essay by Theunis Roux sweeps across the dem ocratic constitutionalist project as it is under threat of running aground in India and South Africa with echoes fo...

Post 2 of the IACL blog symposium on Theunis Roux’s paper. Link: blog-iacl-aidc.org/2025-posts/2...

25.02.2025 15:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Grand Narratives of Transition and the Quest for Democratic Constitutionalism in India and South Africa - Nomos eLibrary

Roux’s paper is available here: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/0...

20.02.2025 12:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This introduction will be followed by a sequence of contributions from global constitutional law scholars, engaging with Roux from different perspectives. Please look out for updates from the IACL blog every week!

20.02.2025 11:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Grand Narratives of Constitutional Journeys and the Crisis of Democracy: Introduction to the Blog Symposium — IACL-IADC Blog Anmol JAIN In his thought-provoking piece of contemporary global relevance, Theunis Roux makes an important intervention in the debates around the design, character, and effects of the Indian and Sou...

I introduce a blog symposium, hosted by the IACL blog, on Theunis Roux’s fantastic paper on the constitutional journeys of India and South Africa: blog-iacl-aidc.org/2025-posts/2...

20.02.2025 11:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

A short review of 2024 - I argue that in this super year for elections, the biggest trend from India is the fall from grace of the ECI, and the electoral process.

29.12.2024 11:30 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

How has India's 🇮🇳 democracy developed in 2024?

ANMOL JAIN explains why India’s electoral processes are in danger and focuses on a key player: the Election Commission.

verfassungsblog.de/democracy-an...

28.12.2024 11:24 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1