Undermining the Idea of IndiaA searing manifesto for troubled times in India. India is improbable. By any measure of logic or reason, it should not be. Not in this form. And yet it is. With this provocation, Justice Gautam Patel of the Bombay High Court sketches the exoskeleton of this improbabilitythe Constitutional idea of India. Justice Patel argues that the devolution of power is necessary for the survival of any liberal democracy, maintaining the idea that the right to