When the galaxy of leaders who fought for freedom from colonial rule decided that the Constitution of India should carry illustrations of episodes from India’s great epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata—a version of the Ramayana illustration that comes in the fundamental rights section of the original Constitution graces the front cover of this book—they similarly bowed to that civilisational history. The modern Indian State is the inheritor and flagbearer of this heritage.
