Rohit De is assistant professor of history at Yale University.
""Winner of the J. Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law and Society Association"" ""Honorable Mention for the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award, American Society for Legal History"" ""Shortlisted for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, New India Foundation"" ""Elegantly written, meticulously researched, and convincingly argued, this is an impressive contribution to understanding Indian democracy and the role of judicial engagement in buttressing it.""---A. Ahmad, Choice Reviews ""It is a book that must be read not only by lawyers and (wo)men of law, but by every citizen who seeks to understand the Constitutional underpinnings of our republic. ""---Sanjay Hegde and Pranjal Kishore, Economic and Political Weekly