Constitution in an effort to better understand whether this document captured the essence of and reflected Bharat’s civilisational spirit. B. Shiva Rao’s six-volume publication The Framing of India’s Constitution: A Study, V.P. Menon’s The Story of The Integration of the Indian States and Justice Rama Jois’s Legal and Constitutional History of India: Ancient, Judicial and Constitutional System served as some of my principal references in this regard.
