Saee Vishwas Tamhankar, Visiting Faculty, ILS Law College, Pune
Introduction:
‘It is difficult for me or anyone to Judge what we have done during the last year or so... Historians a generation or two hence will perhaps be able to judge what we have done right and what we have done wrong’ – Jawaharlal Nehru.
These are the words spoken by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru while speaking at a banquet organized in honour of Mountbatten in the year 1948. The transfer of power which gradually took place in the years 1942-1947 in turn shaped the futures of three countries i.e. India, Pakistan and later Bangladesh. Since 1947, substantial time has passed and India and Pakistan are celebrating 75 years of freedom, in light of this, it is imperative to analyse whether the countries have at least partially achieved the aims that they set out to achieve. The present project is an endeavour on part of the researcher to study and compare the growth of these three nations through the lens of comparative constitutional law with a special reference to the theory of Constitutionalism. In the present project the researcher has used the doctrinal method of research and has relied on primary and secondary sources such as legislations, books, journals, news articles etc. It is exploratory research which has derived conclusion using both deductive and inductive methods of reasoning.
