The drafting of the Constitution of India in 1950 is often studied through Constituent Assembly debates, committee reports, and historical constitutions. Less recognized is that the Assembly received thousands of petitions—mostly after the 1948 Draft Constitution was circulated—providing feedback from individual citizens and diverse groups. These petitions reveal an important but underexplored dimension of public engagement in constitution-making. Developed in collaboration with the Pluralist Agreement and Constitutional Transformation project, of which the Centre for Law and Policy Research is a partner, this Petitions archive is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, United Kingdom. It currently hosts fifteen documents and will eventually include nearly three thousand.
