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Today, we have with us noted historian Sushri Linda Colley on our show.

Today, we will discuss Linda's book 'The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World.'

Starting not with the United States, but with the Corsican constitution of 1755, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen moves through every continent, disrupting accepted narratives. Throughout, Colley demonstrates how constitutions evolved in tandem with warfare, and how they have functioned to advance empire as well as promote nations, and worked to exclude as well as liberate. This is one of the most original global histories in decades.

Linda Colley is the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. She is an expert on British, imperial, and global history.

▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:00 - Highlights
01:10 - Intro
02:40 - Linda, what led you to write a book about the history of constitutions?
06:48 - Your book is about the history of constitutions and yet you have guns and ships in the title. Is the history of the constitution that violent?
08:55 - When was the first constitution ever drafted? What is the story behind it?
12:16 - What is the need to bring in a pen and write down the constitution? Isn't it just a set of guiding principles on how to administer masses? It's not that the written principles don't get flouted. So how does writing and codifying help?
16:24 - When you talk about the constitution, people generally associate it with democracies. However, in your book, you give examples of monarchies drafting it. What was the need?
22:10 - When you think about the concept of the constitution, one would expect that fairness and equal rights should be one of the guiding principles. However, very often that is not the case. For instance, the US constitution didn't allow women suffrage until 1920. How does it happen that a very basic principle such as equality of rights is missing so often in the constitution?
27:12 - Challenge in writing the constitution of India
32:04 - Constitution formation is very global. Events happening in one part of the world might ideate the principle of the constitution in another part of the world. You give several examples in your book. Please talk about that.
37:52 - Constitutional amendments - why it is so important for the survival of a country?
42:47 - The founding principles of a constitution might get outdated over time. Has it ever happened that an outdated constitution led to an uprising and an armed conflict?
44:49 - Diversity Vs Homogeneity while writing the constitution
48:50 - Future projects of Linda Colley
50:37 - How to become a global Historian?
53:59 - Closing remark
54:28 - End screen


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