Constituting India: Intersections of Internal Realities and External Influences in Shaping the Normative and Institutional Structure of the Indian Constitution Introduction The framing of the Indian Constitution between 1946 and 1950 was a formative political act of postcolonial state-making—a moment when the Indian Constituent Assembly navigated the dense interplay between indigenous socio-political conditions and global … Continue reading What were the principal internal socio-political conditions and external ideological or institutional influences that shaped the framing of the Indian Constitution, and how did these factors collectively inform its normative structure and institutional design?