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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/0c62b3c7e96aee90 https://verfassungsblog.de/civil-society-and-its-engagement-with-the-constitution/ Civil Society and its Engagement with the Constitution Jaising, Indira eng 2024-04-06 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 India Indian Constitutionalism Indien Jaising Indira | Rechtsanwältin civil society Indien Jaising Indira | Rechtsanwältin Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The Indian Constitution is as much a culmination of the ideas of the freedom movement against colonial powers as it is of the achievement of a social revolution through law. Our Constitution, which was inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, thus, not only provided for political freedom from foreign rule and established a democratic republic, but it also provided a road map to undo the deeply entrenched hierarchies, inequalities, and social exclusions in our society and therefore for a social transformation. Much of the civil society interventions of the last seven decades have been to work for redeeming the promise of the constitution inside and outside courts.