After the Assembly: Constituting India

'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

Opening times

The exhibition is open from 11 April to 21 June, Tuesday – Saturday (10:30am to 5:00pm) and late on Thursdays until 8:00pm. The roof garden is open whenever the exhibitions are open.

Exhibition team

• Curator: Professor Rochana Bajpai, SOAS University of London
• Curatorial Adviser: Dr Chaitanya Sambrani, Australian National University
• Exhibition Adviser: Dr Nilanjan Sarkar, London School of Economics & Political Science
• Designer: Oroon Das, ODDWORKS LLP, New Delhi
• Project Coordinator: Alice Winters, SOAS University of London

Contributors

•    Shaaz Ahmed
•    Dr Udit Bhatia
•    Vikrant Bhise
•    Diya Bijoy
•    Subham Biswas
•    Dr Nicholas Cole
•    Manina Doerfler
•    Eera Dubey
•    Shilpa Gupta
•    Sarah Jacob
•    Lauren Davis Jarnach
•    Riyas Komu
•    Vineeth Krishna
•    Professor Sudhir Krishnaswamy
•    Vinay Kumar
•    Vasanth Muthiah
•    Mahi J Rai
•    Dr Manas Raturi
•    Insiya Amjad Shamsi
•    Shantibai