<p>Preface<br />
Foreword<br />
<em>Arun Thiruvengadam (National Law School,&nbsp;India)</em><br />
Part 1: The Problem of Constitutional Resilience Decoded<br />
1. Constitutional Resilience in South Asia: A Primer,&nbsp;<em>Swati Jhaveri (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Tarunabh Khaitan (University of Oxford, UK) and Dinesha Samararatne (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka)</em><br />
Part 2: Constitutional Design<br />
2. Institutional Resilience and Political Transitions in Sri Lanka and Beyond,&nbsp;<em>Dian Shah (National University of Singapore, Singapore) and Mario Gomez (International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka)</em><br />
3. Old Powers and New Forces in the Bhutanese Constitution &ndash; Anticipating the Resilience of a Young Constitution,&nbsp;<em>Michaela Windischgraetz (University of Vienna, Austria)</em><br />
Part 3: Federalism<br />
4. Territorial Dynamics in Sri Lanka: Federalism, Unitarism and Path Dependence,&nbsp;<em>Jayani Nadarajalingam (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Zim Nwokora (Deakin University, Australia)</em><br />
5. Proposing a Solidarity-Based Federalism for Sri Lanka,&nbsp;<em>Erika Arban (Melbourne Law School, Australia)</em><br />
6. The Constitutional Resilience of Human Rights in New Federal States: Local Government and the National Human Rights Commission in Nepal,<em>&nbsp;Hari P. Dhungana (Nepal Open University, Nepal) and Iain Payne (University of New South Wales, Australia)</em><br />
Part 4: The Political Branches<br />
7. Killing a Constitution with a Thousand Cuts: Aggrandisement and Party&ndash;State Fusion in India,&nbsp;<em>Tarunabh Khaitan (University of Oxford, UK)</em><br />
8. Dysfunction and Ad Hocism in Agenda Setting: Compromising of the Lok Sabha in India,&nbsp;<em>Devendra Damle (Open Network for Digital Commerce, India) and Shubho Roy (University of Chicago, USA)</em><br />
9. Dysfunction Resilience of the Afghan Civil Service,&nbsp;<em>Ebrahim Afsah (University of Vienna, Austria)</em><br />
Part 5: The Judiciary<br />
10. The Maldives: A Parable of Judicial Crisis, Institutional Corrosion, and Democratic Demise,&nbsp;<em>Ahmed Nazeer (University of Portsmouth, UK)</em><br />
11. Judicial Evasion, Judicial Vagueness and Judicial Revisionism: A Study of the NCT of Delhi v Union of India Judgment(s),&nbsp;<em>Gautam Bhatia (India)</em><br />
Part 6: Fourth Branch (Guarantor) Institutions<br />
12. Sri Lanka&#39;s Guarantor Branch: Constitutional Resilience by Stealth?&nbsp;<em>Dinesha Samararatne (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka)</em><br />
13. The South Asian Fourth Branch: Designing Election Commissions for Constitutional Resilience,&nbsp;<em>Michael Pal (University of Ottawa, Canada)</em><br />
14. Between Trust and Democracy: Th e Election Commission of India and the Question of Constitutional Accountability,&nbsp;<em>M. Mohsin Alam Bhat (Jindal Global University, India)</em><br />
15. The Turbulent Journey and Overlooked Opportunities of Electoral Democracy in Bangladesh,&nbsp;<em>Muhammad Omar Faruque (Bangladesh Judicial Service, Bangladesh)</em><br />
Part 7: The Military<br />
16. Rescuing the Agency and Resilience of Civilian Political Actors: Civil-Military Relations in Pakistan, 2008-20,&nbsp;<em>Farhan Hanif Siddiqi (Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan)</em><br />
17. A Frozen Democratic Transition: Pakistan&#39;s Hybrid Regime and Weak Party System,&nbsp;<em>Muhammad Salman (Habib University, Pakistan) and Marzia Raza (University of Osnabr&uuml;ck, Germany)</em><br />
Part 8: The People<br />
18. Rethinking Constitutional Resilience from Below: Dalit Rights and Land Reform, F<em>aizan Jawed Siddiqi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)</em><br />
19. Constitutional Patriotism in India: Appreciating the People as Constitutional Actors,&nbsp;<em>Jahnavi Sindhu (Humboldt University, Germany) and Vikram Aditya Narayan (Humboldt University, Germany)</em><br />
Part 9: Conclusion<br />
20. Epilogue: Resilience and Political Constitutionalism in South Asia and Beyond,&nbsp;<em>Philipp Dann (Humboldt University, Germany)</em></p>
