http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20180909-151331-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/decriminalising-homosexuality-in-india-as-a-matter-of-transformative-constitutionalism/ Decriminalising Homosexuality in India as a Matter of Transformative Constitutionalism Bagchi, Kanad eng 2018-09-09 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Criminalization of Homosexuality Indian Supreme Court Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 What worth is a Constitution if it does not seek out the emancipation of a society’s most marginalized and excluded? Indeed, what vision ought a Constitution espouse if it isn’t a commitment to basic fundamental rights and freedoms? Ultimately, what polity must a Constitution nurture if it isn’t towards imbibing the widest and most deepest sense of inclusion and pluralism in society? All these searching questions and much more came to form a distinct part of the decision of the Indian Supreme Court (Court) when it was called upon to rule on the constitutional validly of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.