Assembling India’s Constitution offers a new history and a new paradigm for understanding the making of the Indian constitution, as it emerged outside the Constituent Assembly, driven by diverse publics across the breadth and length of India’s territory and even beyond it. The book is based on a wide range of new archival materials from across India and the world. We reveal the existence of multiple, parallel constitution making processes underway across the subcontinent, showing that the Indian constitution was not, as it has been assumed, solely an elite exercise anchored in the Constituent Assembly in Delhi. We reimagine and reconstruct the constitution making altogether, foregrounding public constitutional practice and politics as a key to sustaining the constitution and its vision. In doing so, we challenge conventional chronology of constitutional development and pluralise the sources and nature of India’s constitutional law and politics. We argue that the making of the Indian constitution entailed a process of fitting together – assembling – disparate and simultaneous constitution making efforts across the country.