Tag: colonialism
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The Gandhian Constitution Was Never an Alternative
—Ashwani Kumar Singh, Assistant Professor of Law, Vinayaka Mission’s Law School, VMRF (DU) In his recent book The Colonial Constitution, Arghya Sengupta argues that the Indian Constitution is a colonial document.[1] He arrives at this conclusion by arguing: first, the framers adopted an Indianized version of the Government of India Act 1935; second, the Constitution…
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Rethinking the Legal Constitution of Difference in the Philippines
—Armi Beatriz E. Bayot, University of Oxford Faculty of Law [Editors’ Note: This is one of our biweekly ICONnect columns. For more information on our four columnists for 2021, please see here.] In February 2021, multiple media outlets broke the news that the Philippine National Police (PNP) had “rescued” a group of young indigenous Lumad…
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Truth-seeking in Peace Processes: Addressing Colonial Roots of Internal Conflict
—Armi Beatriz E. Bayot, University of Oxford Faculty of Law [Editors’ Note: This is one of our biweekly ICONnect columns. For more information on our four columnists for 2021, please see here.] In negotiating intrastate peace agreements,[1] an important threshold that needs to be crossed by the conflict parties is addressing the meta-conflict, i.e.,