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  • Kevin James

    Kevin James is a Research Associate at the Centre...

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  • Arghya Sengupta

    Arghya Sengupta is the Founder and Research Direc...

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  • Shankar Narayanan

    Shankar Narayanan was, until recently, an Advocat...

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  • Episode on Hamīñ Ast? A Biography of Article 370

    Podcast  |  by  Jinaly Dani

    In this Podcast episode, Naveed Mehmood Ahmad discusses 'Hamīñ Ast? A Biography of Article 370' with co-author Jinaly Dani. Hamīñ Ast? traces the constitutional and legal history of Article 370 from its origins as a placeholder that guar...

  • Heads Held High: Salvaging State Governors for 21st Century India

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    • March 13, 2023
    • 2:30

    What really is the office of the State Governor? At times it has been called a colonial relic, at other times it has been called the umpire of Indian democracy. In Heads Held High, the authors explore the evolution of this institution in-depth and s...

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  • Launch of Hamīñ Ast? Book Cover

    • Videos
    • October 31, 2022
    • 0:44

    Watch the animated video of the book cover of 'Hamīñ Ast? A Biography of Article 370.' Hamīñ Ast? is the first digital-only book published by NAVI Books, Vidhi's open access, digital book publishing website. ABOUT THE BOOK: Co-author...

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  • Video on Hamīñ Ast? A Biography on Article 370

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    • July 10, 2022
    • 2 Minute 40 Seconds

    How did this article come to be in 1950? What happened over the course of the last 70 years that made Jammu and Kashmir a 'special state?' Arghya Sengupta and Jinaly Dani, co-authors of the book 'Hamīñ Ast? A Biography on Article 370' here introdu...

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    • Blogs
    • 5 Minute

    Why Was Article 370 Not Abrogated Earlier?

    “Article 370 is neither a wall nor a mountain, but...it is a tunnel. It is through this tunnel that a good deal of traffic has already passed and more will.” Gulzarilal Nanda In 1950, the State of J&K was included in the Union of India o...

    by Pranay Modi

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    Looking Back at the Abrogation of Article 370

    Today marks the passage of two years since the ‘abrogation’ of Article 370 of the Constitution of India. A lot has happened since then, but it is worth our while to look back and consider the abrogation in greater depth. This blog does just that...

    by Pranay Modi

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