Bharatha Rajyangam, 2013, translation of The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of A Nation, Granville Austin, translated by Mandara Prabhakar, 483 pages, Rs. 500. The book is a history of the Indian Constituent Assembly. It discusses how and why the members of the Assembly wrote their constitution as they did. It provides the most comprehensive, insightful and balanced account of the work of the Constituent Assembly which drafted the Indian Constitution in the brief span of time from December, 1946 to December, 1949 – a time of strife, turbulence and ferment not merely in India but in the entire world. \nAuthor: Granville Austin (1927-2014), an American historian is the author of two seminal political histories of the constitution of India, The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation and Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience. \n \nTranslator: Prabhakar Mandara who has translated several important works from English into Telugu, received the Central Sahitya Academy award for translation.