These chapters explain how and why questions of state intention and ideology that were passed over during the crafting of South Asian nations' constitutions have returned to haunt South Asia with greater urgency and consequence.
Neeti Nair is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia.
Michael Kugelman is Deputy Director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson Centre for Scholars, Washington DC.
Bijan Omrani is Editor of the journal Asian Affairs.