Arvind Elangovan graduated from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and the University of Chicago, USA and is currently associate professor of history at Wright State University, Ohio, USA. His research interests lie in exploring the political and constitutional histories of South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present. In particular, he is interested in examining the political histories within which the constitutional developments unfolded in late colonial and postcolonial South Asia. His work has previously appeared in journals such as History Compass, South Asian History and Culture and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Norms and Politics is his first book.