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&apos;India is improbable. By any measure of logic or reason, it should not be. Not in this form. And yet it is.&apos;
With this provocation, Justice Gautam Patel of the Bombay High Court sketches the exoskeleton of this improbability-the &apos;Constitutional&apos; idea of India. Justice Patel argues that the devolution of power is necessary for the survival of any liberal democracy, maintaining the idea that &apos;the right to choose one&apos;s own government is the right to dissent.&apos; Decrying the portrayal of politics as sport, Patel elucidates the strategies and tactics used by &apos;nimble&apos; governments to enforce a culture of &apos;broad-spectrum illiberalism&apos;. A champion of transparency in the judiciary, Patel argues that the Internet and the judiciary must serve as beacons in this age of precarity. A timely text that comes at a juncture where liberal democracies across the world are facing existential threats, Undermining the Idea of India is a searing manifesto for our troubled times.

Gautam S. Patel