Vineeth Krishna

Senior Research Associate & Editor

vineeth[dot]krishna[at]clpr[dot]org[dot]in

Vineeth graduated with a B.A. from St. Joseph’s College of Arts and Science, Bangalore. He completed his MA in Development (Law and Governance) at the Azim Premji University, Bangalore.

Vineeth is interested in studying Indian constitutionalism through the lens of political theory and intellectual history.

Publications

Blog

Subhas Chandra Bose’s Political Ideas were Always Clear, not His Constitutional Imagination

January 26, 2022

In this article published by The Print, Vineeth Krishna and Sudhir Krishnaswamy discuss the constitutional legacy of Subhas Chandra Bose.

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India’s founders gave us our Constitution. We must prove to them that we can keep it

November 28, 2018

In this article, published on Consitution Day 2018, Vineeth Krishna warns against assuming that India will always remain a constitutional democracy. He argues for viewing the Constitution as a ‘civic’ and emphasises the need to create a popular constitutional culture in India.

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Constitution framers did not anticipate use of criminal law in reforming Muslim Personal Law

September 26, 2018

Vineeth Krishna, Lead Associate Editor at CLPR, adds a historical perspective to the recent debate on the role of criminal law in Muslim personal law reform triggered by the passing of the Muslim Women (Protection of tights of Marriage) Ordinance, 2018.

This piece is part of ConQuest-ThePrint series of articles on Indian constitutional and political history

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Call for Communications Associate | CLPR’s National Constitution Quiz (3-Month Engagement)

August 17, 2024

The Centre for Law and Policy Research, Bangalore (CLPR) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to making…

Borrowing Battles: Kerala’s Curious Reliance on Constitutional History

May 7, 2024

In the Supreme Court, Kerala contended that states have unrestricted authority to borrow money, citing Indian constitutional history among other arguments. This piece briefly examines the genesis of Article 293 and explores Kerala’s use of constitutional history in this instance.

Why Ambedkar Opposed an Indian Constituent Assembly

April 1, 2021

B.R. Ambedkar’s seminal contribution to Indian constitution-making as the Chairman of the Drafting Committee is widely celebrated and acknowledged. Less known was his initial critique of an Indian Constituent Assembly in the mid-1940s. On 6 May 1945, Ambedkar addressed a gathering of the All-Indian Scheduled Castes Federation. Instead of speaking about the sectional interests of the Scheduled Castes, he chose to speak on a ‘topic which is general and has wider appeal, namely, the shape and form of the future Constitution of India’.