LRI Legal History: India’s Communal Constitution: Colonial & Consti Imprints in Making of a People

Prof. (Dr.) Mathew John is Professor, and Executive Director, Centre for Public Law and Jurisprudence, Jindal Global Law School. Dr. John holds B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) degrees from National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, and LL.M. from Warwick University. He completed his doctoral work at the London School of Economics on the impact of secularism on Indian constitutional practice. He has previously worked at the Alternative Law Forum, Bengaluru on social justice lawyering. He has also been a “Law and Culture Fellow” at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bengaluru; and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Dr. John works and publishes on issues bearing on public law, constitutionalism, constitutional theory, pluralism and the legal history of modern India. His work on these subjects has been published extensively in academic journals. Along with Dr. Sitharamam Kakarala, Dr. John has co-edited Enculturing Law: New Agendas for Legal Pedagogy (Tulika Books: 2007). He has authored India’s Communal Constitution: Law, Religion and the Making of a People (Cambridge University Press: 2024).