When the Indian Constitution was being born, its creators resolved that all further politics would be conducted within its bounds. B.R. Ambedkar said: “... We must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional methods for achieving economic and social objectives, there was a great deal of justification for unconstitutional methods.”
Politics and a distinction
Political theorists make the distinction between ordinary politics and extraordinary politics. Ordinary politics reproduces instituted order. In extraordinary politics, the sovereign, the people, change the fundamentals and reconstitute the order. The establishment of a new order is deemed to be the ‘end of politics’ until it is challenged through insurrection. David Held uses the concept of the ‘end of politics’ to analyse Marxism. “The end of politics (or the end of the era of the state) means the transformation of political life as it had been known ...,” with the establishment of communes. Extrapolating, all politics aim for an end of politics.
