“Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro- And what should they know of England who only England know?”2
Rudyard Kipling, in these lines tries to convey that if one wishes to know England one should know what is ‘NOT’ England and one who knows ‘ONLY’ England doesn’t know England at all. This is very true in our context of comparative constitutional studies as well and an analogy can be drawn. The basic premise of indulging in a comparative constitutional exercise in my opinion emanates from the very principle of “inevitability” and also that of “necessity”. The fact that we live in a globalized world and cannot literally afford to remain oblivious of other developments around the world drives us to look beyond our own territories, our own cocoons and shells and hence reflect, introspect and finally implement for the betterment of our society at large.
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