Colours for Constitutions is a scientific monograph meant for academics and researchers in public law. Diversity of colour is a cultural fact in human society. In cultural science, ‘colour’ is a more concrete visible identity and it can determine social behaviour including that of inclusion and exclusion, discrimination and anti-discrimination, besides also leading to the crasser perception of race. This work, published in English, provides for concrete legal definition of ‘colour’. In constitutional law, and other branches of law, colour relates to important issues such as discrimination-non-discrimination, right to health through regulation of food colours, national flags and symbols. The unified conceptual argument of Colours for constitutions has been formed with help of systems theory and cultural constitutionalism as conceptual tools open to ‘social facts’ and can be applied to all constitutional cultural systems to test its conceptual validity.

Dr. Pratyush Kumar is a PhD in Public and Comparative Law (“PUBLIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: LANGUAGE, LAW, HISTORY - curriculum: LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC SERVICES, RIGHTS”) from University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria, Italy. He is LLM (International and Comparative Law) from George Washington University Law School, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA (2009-2010) and BA, LLB (Hons.) from National Law University Jodhpur, India (2003-2008). Earlier he was teaching full-time LLB and LLM students in National Law University Delhi (2012-2017). He has book-chapters and peer-reviewed articles to his credit in India, Italy, Germany, United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, Peru (translated into Spanish) and South Korea (also translated into Korean). He also contributes to Hindi journals on issues of culture, history and philosophy. He is the co-editor of Dr. Sachchidanand Sinha’s autobiography (forthcoming, New Delhi: Anamika) and author of the book ‘Colours for Constitutions’ (Torino: Giappichelli, 2022).