Constitution Project

UPIASI held a three-day conference on "Constitutional Ideas and Political Practices: Fifty Years of the Republic," in January 2000 in New Delhi.  The conference, which received coverage in leading Indian newspapers including the Hindu and the Hindustan Times, rare for an academic meeting, coincided with the fiftieth anniversary of the Indian Constitution coming into effect.  Participants focused on the course of constitutional ideas in actual practice over the last half-century, presenting in panels on Overviews of the Constitution; Organizing Principles of the Constitution; Rights and Justice; and Equity and the Polity.