Freedom of Speech and Constitutional Nostalgia | Humanities & Social Sciences

Freedom of Speech and Constitutional Nostalgia

An early attempt at 'Critical Constitutional Studies', arguing against an uncritical veneration of our constitutional past.

Issue of the RSS Organ 'Organiser' describing a free speech case from the 1950s.
Organiser front page, May 1950
A reprise of an earlier piece on the first cases of freedom of speech under the 1950 Constitution -- by the magazines CrossRoads and Organiser, republished for the Supreme Court Observer on the occasion of the 75th year of the Supreme Court of India.
Originally published in Seminar magazine, issue 697 (2017).
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